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Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 17:20:42 +0100
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:44:18PM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > and this transfer function then immediately goes from (addr,len)
> > to (page/offset/len). That's rather silly ..
> 
> Changing that would kill all existing modules that use the loop device.

I don't think that matters.  This is 2.5 and APIs tend to change
in unstable series :)  Do you know of any users except the various
cryptoloop implementations?