Paul Hilton wrote: > I cannot get loop-AES (3.2e) to work with Suse 11.1 (Linux-2.6.27.7-9) > > <linux/bio.h> seems to have a non kernel.org structure for bio, which > doesn't contain bi_hw_front_size (or any other bi_hw _* members). > so loop.c won't compile. My guess is that Suse included some 2.6.28-rc patches in their kernel. Those bi_hw_* vanished in mainline 2.6.28-rc. I tried to look at kernel-source-2.6.27.7-9.1.i586.rpm, which I found at http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/suse/i586/ , but the rpm version that came with the distro that I am using refuses to install it. I see this error message: error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic As of this writing, I still haven't seen what is inside the .rpm file, and I don't know what version of rpm will open it. :( Can you, or someone else, post a bzip2 compressed diff of kernel.org 2.6.27.7 -> Suse 2.6.27.7-9 in some place? It is faster that way, as I don't plan to sort out the rpm mess today. > Is this something I can easily fix? Loop code in loop-AES-v3.2e adapts to different bio struct on 2.6.28 kernel and later. What happens if you change those version dependent #if statements to enable the new code on 2.6.27 kernel? You can do this by changing 0x2061c constants to 0x2061b . Something like this: sed -i -e 's/0x2061c/0x2061b/' loop.c-2.6.patched But that is likely to fail, because 2.6.27 -> 2.6.28 changes involved other changes to block layer interfaces. -- Jari Ruusu 1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9 DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
