Re: [PATCH] loop.c - part 1 of many

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Mon, 23 Jun 2003 15:17:40 +0100

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:59:35AM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> >>> IMHO we should replace it with a by-name selection
>
> >> That is what CryptoAPI does
>
> > CryptoAPI did _not_ replace it but add another level of indirection
>
> Right. That is backwards compatibility for you.

The only backwards-compatiblity we care for in mainline is
XOR and special-casing that is trivial, we don't even need to support
anything else with the by magic number ioctl. In fact I wonder
whether we should care for X0R - I know of exactly one real-life use...

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