Re: Oopsing cryptoapi (or loop device?) on 2.6.*

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 08:36:00PM +0100, Christophe Saout wrote:
> The only reason, I guess, is that it depends on this very small
> dm-daemon thing:
> http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/dm/patches/2.6-unstable/2.6.2/2.6.2-udm1/00016.patch
> 
> Some other dm targets in the unstable tree use this too, it's just to
> have very simple bottom-half processing in a separate thread with
> synchronous start and stop functions.
> 
> Especially since dm-crypt was announced in a german linux magazine two
> weeks ago people keep asking me when to expect it in the kernel. And to
> delay it for some months just because there might be changes to
> dm-daemon, which would be almost trivial, is a stupid reason to hold it
> back if you ask me. :(

Well, actually the above code should not enter the kernel tree at all.
Care to rewrite dm-crypt to use Rusty's kthread code in -mm instead and
submit a patch to Andrew?  Whenever he merges the kthread stuff to mainline
he could just include dm-crypt then.
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