dm-loop patch dropped?

[Stefan Bader]

Tim Gardner wrote:
> Hadmut Danisch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was looking for a solution for ubuntu bug #500331. A dmsetup command
>> that use to work well in jaunty does not work in karmic
>> anymore. Redhat's developers of the dmsetup command told me, that
>> these commands depend on the dm-loop patch for the linux kernel, which
>> was not yet accepted into the main stream kernel. It seems as if these
>> patches had been applied to jaunty kernels (and maybe older ubuntu
>> versions), but are not applied to karmic anymore. 
>>
>> Has the functionality been dropped intentionally?
>>
>>
>> regards
>> Hadmut
>>
> 
> Yes - dm-loop was removed from Karmic. We've been doing a better job 
> lately of remembering why we made config decisions, but dm-loop appears 
> to have been deleted (by yours truly) without the decision having been 
> documented. I imagine it was because we thought it was unused, bad code, 
> not in the upstream kernel, or some combination of the above excuses.
> 
> rtg

There has been some notes on
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/specs/KernelKarmicReviewOfNonUpstreamedCode
by which it was removed afterwe have been told it only had been used by WUBI but
that would not need it any longer.

-Stefan