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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] cryptoloop
    Chris Friesen wrote:
    > Jari Ruusu wrote:
    > > Because loop-AES attempts to be compatible with structures in loop.h by not
    > > modifying loop.h at all. This is what the "no kernel sources patched or
    > > replaced" means. Breakage in loop.h breaks loop-AES, and I have to clean the
    > > mess.
    >
    > We're in a development stream. It is kind of expected that in-kernel
    > APIs may change if the developers feel it will lead to some improvement.
    >
    > This sucks for people that are trying to track those APIs with
    > out-of-kernel patches, but its a fact of life.

    I know. I already have to deal with API breakages.

    Changing transfer function prototype may be a tiny speed improvement for one
    implementation that happens to use unoptimal API, but at same time be tiny
    speed degration to other implementations that use more saner APIs. I am
    unhappy with that change, because I happen to maintain four such transfers
    that would be subject to tiny speed degration.

    Regards,
    Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>

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