Re: [patch] new aop loop fix

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:48:16 +0100 (BST)

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Dmitriy Monakhov wrote:

Btw: Nick's patches broke LO_CRYPT_XOR mode,

It would help him if you could describe how.

but it is ok because
this feature was absolete and not used by anyone, am i right here?

I know nothing of this; but so long as its code remains in the driver,
I'd say we should be supporting it rather than breaking it.

Hugh
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