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Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> but if people are depending on that support to stay
>  in a stable kernel and are developing based on it and don't have the
>  time to learn dm or dmcrypto and redesign whatever may need redesigning
>  to use it, it strikes me as rude to pull that support.

This is actually an argument for removing cryptolooop.  People are
developing against a crypto infrastructure which has well-known weaknesses.

Pulling it out is an excellent way of communicating this fact.  Right now,
we're just deluding people.