dm-loop patch dropped?

[Hadmut Danisch]

Stefan Bader schrieb:
>
> 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.
>
>   

Just for curiosity: How could anyone know and tell that nobody used it?

Especially when using virtual machines (kvm) and together with kpartx it
is highly usefull to mount virtual disks in files from the host
operating systems and make life easier than with /dev/loop


regards
Hadmut