On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 05:55:42AM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > This patch introduces a new ioctl DM_GET_TARGET_VERSION. It will load a > target that is specified in the "name" entry in the parameter structure > and return its version. > > This functionality is intended to be used by cryptsetup, so that it can > query kernel capabilities before activating the device.
Well, if you want to query kernel features you better ask for a feature bitmap than a version number, which can be rather meaningless with the amount of backporting that is going on. -- dm-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
