From 222013f9ac30b9cec44301daa8dbd0aae38abffb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:32:50 +0200 Subject: cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning Support for cryptoloop has been officially marked broken and deprecated in favor of dm-crypt (which supports the same broken algorithms if needed) in Linux 2.6.4 (released in March 2004), and support for it has been entirely removed from losetup in util-linux 2.23 (released in April 2013). Add a warning and a deprecation schedule. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210827163250.255325-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- drivers/block/cryptoloop.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/block/cryptoloop.c') diff --git a/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c b/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c index 3cabc335ae74..f0a91faa43a8 100644 --- a/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c +++ b/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c @@ -189,6 +189,8 @@ init_cryptoloop(void) if (rc) printk(KERN_ERR "cryptoloop: loop_register_transfer failed\n"); + else + pr_warn("the cryptoloop driver has been deprecated and will be removed in in Linux 5.16\n"); return rc; } -- cgit v1.2.3