From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, akpm@digeo.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cryptoloop
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 13:38:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F046A30.6080509@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3F04680D.B9703696@pp.inet.fi
Jari Ruusu wrote:
> Because loop-AES attempts to be compatible with structures in loop.h by not
> modifying loop.h at all. This is what the "no kernel sources patched or
> replaced" means. Breakage in loop.h breaks loop-AES, and I have to clean the
> mess.
We're in a development stream. It is kind of expected that in-kernel
APIs may change if the developers feel it will lead to some improvement.
This sucks for people that are trying to track those APIs with
out-of-kernel patches, but its a fact of life.
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-03 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-02 18:44 [PATCH] cryptoloop Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-02 19:02 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-02 19:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-02 19:20 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-02 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-03 11:21 ` Jari Ruusu
2003-07-03 15:20 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-03 17:29 ` Jari Ruusu
2003-07-03 17:38 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-07-04 7:43 ` Jari Ruusu
2003-07-04 8:44 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-04 9:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-05 8:41 ` Jari Ruusu
2003-07-05 8:58 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-05 9:00 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-05 9:10 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-05 17:16 ` James Morris
2003-07-05 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-08 12:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-04 9:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-03 16:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-04 13:21 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-04 13:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-04 11:08 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-04 12:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-03 16:25 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-03 16:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-02 22:57 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-02 22:27 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-02 21:00 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-02 21:06 ` Greg KH
2003-07-02 21:31 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-03 16:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-02 19:42 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-02 19:58 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-02 15:21 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-02 17:16 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-03 15:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
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