Re: LOOP_MULTI_KEY_SETUP_V3 Errors Fixed

[Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PagCal wrote:
> from http://loop-aes.ajept.com/Readme.txt
[snip]
> How to obtain the kit
> ---------------------
> 
>         This source kit is available from:
> 
>         http://loop-AES.ajept.com/loop-AES.tar.gz

Please call your project something else than loop-AES.
That name is already taken.

>    Furthermore, the api changed for transfer_aes, to:
> 
>       int transfer_aes(struct loop_device *lo, int cmd,
>         struct page *raw_page, unsigned raw_off,
>         struct page *loop_page, unsigned loop_off,
>         int size, sector_t devSect)
>       {
>       char *raw_buf = kmap_atomic(raw_page, KM_USER0) + raw_off;
>       char *loop_buf = kmap_atomic(loop_page, KM_USER1) + loop_off;
>       ...
>       }
> 
>    What's kmap_atomic? Why did the api change?

Mainline linux folks wanted to kmap/kunmap multiple times per page instead
of once per page as is done in loop-AES version of loop. That is why I
prefer to call mainline loop as 'sabotaged'.

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