Ok, I guess what my question boils down to is this. Debian has a number of prebuilt kernels that include loopback support as a module. If I install one of these then remove loop.o and replace it with the loop-aes module will I have any problems? Assuming I have of course built loop-aes using the kernel config from the prebuilt kernel. thanks, Iain. On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:36, Jari Ruusu wrote: > Iain wrote: > > I was just wondering why you can't use loop-aes with a kernel that has > > been compiled with loopback support as a module in the kernel. Couldn't > > you just replace the loop module with the loop-aes module? > > Actually, loop-AES' Makefile removes kernel's loop.o module. And it works > OK until one does "make modules_install" in kernel source directory. Then > you have two loop.o drivers, and you can't expect that to work OK. > > If you _always_ build loop-AES' loop.o _after_ "make modules_install" in > kernel source directory, then you can use CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m in your > kernel .config > > Regards, > Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- PGP info: http://www.myspinach.org/~iain/pgpinfo.html - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
