Re: [PATCH v2] dm-verity: remove support for asynchronous hashes

[Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>]

On 7/10/25 5:55 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 7/10/25 1:28 AM, Milan Broz wrote:
>> Just one nitpick - could you please increase minor version of dm-
>> verity target, so we have information in debug log that it is a
>> patched version?
> Others are convinced that version numbers have no place in the upstream
> kernel and that all version information should be removed from upstream
> kernel drivers.

Others are convinced that this information from the log is very useful,
which is why we report all versions as the first step in cryptsetup tests.

This says nothing about detecting the availability of certain functions -
that is done by just trying the ioctl.
That was the discussion you are probably referring to.

I understand what you are saying, but device-mapper was constructed with
some logic that allows many variants of mapping table parameters and
reporting version is very useful to reproduce compatibility issues.
It saved me a lot of time.

Thanks,
Milan