Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 May 1997 19:24:53 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: loop driver (was Loop Encryption) |
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From: "Andrew E. Mileski" <aem@netcom.ca> Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 19:48:27 -0400 (EDT)
I'd like to consider changing the loop driver to allow plug-in modules. This would be like the current PPP compressor. Each plug-in would register its transfer functions with the loop driver. If necessary, utilities could use ioctls and such to fill any special needs of a plug-in.
Yes, that's the right thing to do. When I originally wrote the loop driver, it was without the encryption hooks. I very purposefully let someone *outside* the U.S. take over the loop driver, and let them develop a set of patches which added encryption. I had never intended for the encryption hooks to get placed into the main kernel, for the obvious export control reasons.....
- Ted
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