Re: Worrisome IDE PIO transfers...

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Sunday 29 of February 2004 03:41, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 01:21:30AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >>I like Alan's idea to use loopback instead of "bswap".
> >
> > Or, more likely, device mapper.
>
> Somehow I doubt anybody cares enough to write a whole driver just for
> this unlikely case.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bart/dm-byteswap-2.6.4-rc1.patch

Guess what's this? :)

[ Not that I care so much but I always wanted to learn more about
  device-mapper and crypto API. ]

It is simply a stripped down dm-crypt.c, so all credits go to Christophe.
I have tested it quickly with loop device and it seems to work.

Bartlomiej

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