From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Brandon Low <blow@rbsys.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.3-mm1
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:22:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040218122216.62bb9e82.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040218200439.GB449@lostlogicx.com>
Brandon Low <blow@rbsys.com> wrote:
>
> I must add my voice here in strong opposition of the removal of
> cryptoloop from the 2.6 series of kernels. This is no longer a
> development series kernel, I (and others, I'm sure) have been working on
> developing technologies which depend on this functionality and which
> would be _very_ annoying to do with DM (liveCD-on-cryptoloop-on-iso).
Why is it problematic?
> Please do not drop cryptoloop!
ho-hum. Why should we retain crypto capabilities which have widely
understood vulnerabilities?
We mainly want to remove the bio remapping stuff from the loop driver
because it's horrid and deadlocks under heavy memory pressure. Maybe we
can leave crytoloop there with big "kindergarten crypto - do not use"
labels all over it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-18 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-18 7:21 2.6.3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 7:43 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 9:25 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 13:42 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Rusty Russell
2004-02-18 18:50 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 11:13 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Sean Neakums
2004-02-18 11:14 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Jonathan Brown
2004-02-18 12:37 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Sean Neakums
2004-02-18 12:14 ` dmcrypt works well on 2.6.3 WAS: 2.6.3-mm1 bert hubert
2004-02-18 14:26 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Ramon Rey Vicente
2004-02-18 18:55 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 19:06 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-18 16:16 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Bill Davidsen
2004-02-18 20:04 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Brandon Low
2004-02-18 20:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-02-18 20:33 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Brandon Low
2004-02-18 20:52 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 20:52 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Brandon Low
2004-02-18 21:00 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 22:15 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Christophe Saout
2004-02-19 0:33 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Brandon Low
2004-02-19 12:39 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Christophe Saout
2004-02-18 17:50 ` 2.6.3-mm1 James Simmons
2004-02-22 2:46 ` 2.6.3-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
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2004-02-18 10:43 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Andi Kleen
2004-02-18 10:55 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-02-19 6:37 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Andi Kleen
2004-02-18 13:45 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Joe Thornber
2004-02-19 11:52 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Andi Kleen
2004-02-18 23:27 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-02-19 17:54 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Andi Kleen
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2004-02-19 21:58 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Bill Davidsen
2004-02-19 22:01 ` 2.6.3-mm1 Christophe Saout
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