On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Jesper Toft Wrote : <snip> jesper :> This where it is failing . jesper :> Do tell me what to patch from where ? jesper :> jesper :> Whether i have to patch 'patch-int-2.4.18.3' first or jesper :> 'loop-jari-2.4.18.0.patch' ? jesper : jesper :You have to apply both patches. jesper : jesper :cd linux jesper :zcat ../patch-int-*.gz | patch -p1 jesper :cat ../loop*.patch | patch -p1 jesper : jesper :patch-int is for the encryption jesper :loop-* is patches for the loop device </snip> Well , i patched the patch-int succesfully , i had some conflicts in Makefile and 2 hunks failed which were in Makefile.rej , then i had to manually make the changes . After that i had patched loop-jari , --dry-run , which resulted in following : <patch-result> [root@Uday linux-2.4]# patch -p1 --dry-run < /tmp/loop-jari.patch patching file drivers/block/loop.c Hunk #1 succeeded at 56 (offset 7 lines). Hunk #2 succeeded at 93 (offset 2 lines). Hunk #3 FAILED at 108. Hunk #4 FAILED at 131. Hunk #5 FAILED at 163. Hunk #6 FAILED at 521. Hunk #7 FAILED at 566. Hunk #8 FAILED at 575. Hunk #9 FAILED at 613. Hunk #10 FAILED at 727. Hunk #11 FAILED at 748. Hunk #12 FAILED at 806. Hunk #13 FAILED at 877. Hunk #14 FAILED at 1032. Hunk #15 FAILED at 1047. Hunk #16 FAILED at 1055. Hunk #17 FAILED at 1070. Hunk #18 FAILED at 1153. Hunk #19 FAILED at 1164. Hunk #20 FAILED at 1204. 18 out of 20 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/block/loop.c.rej patching file include/linux/loop.h Hunk #1 succeeded at 17 with fuzz 1. Hunk #2 FAILED at 54. Hunk #3 FAILED at 86. Hunk #4 FAILED at 130. 3 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/linux/loop.h.rej </patch-result> Now , i m just stuck over here , and please do tell me what to do ? Awaiting 4 ur. reply . bye. uday. -- Reply To : perl -e 'print pack "H*","69747375646179406c696e7578667265656d61696c2e636f6d";' OR to the above 'From' Address - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/