Re: remove encryption options from mount and losetup?

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On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 04:53:04PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Is there any reason to still keep the encryption options in losetup and
> mount around? They look entirely useless to me. Even when using passfd
> and an external key generation function it's still broken as the key
> size is fixed at 32 byte and the last byte is always set to '\0'.
> So would a patch that removes encryption support completely be
> acceptable?

Our goal is to follow kernel, so it would be better to remove this
feature from kernel loopdev first.

    Karel

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