Re: completely confused about kerneli, cryptoapi and patch-int

From: Thorsten Hofmann (thorstenhofmann@gmx.net)
Date: 02/03/03 

From: Thorsten Hofmann <thorstenhofmann@gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 15:59:21 +0100

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:24:23 -0800, /dev/rob0 <rob0@gmx.co.uk> wrote:

>[...] Why not just build and install a new kernel?
>There's not much more to it than the part you're doing already. See the
>Kernel-HOWTO at tldp.org.

I know, I did compile a couple of new kernels without the crypt stuff
before to learn what's going on. The "normal" 2.4.20 worked without
problems.

>Okay, I'm confused. I thought you were doing patch-int. This sounds like
>CryptoAPI, which might no longer be under development (I have not
>checked recently.)

I tried patch-int and got the error messages I pasted in teh original
post. That's the reason I gave crypto-api a try.

>Use "of=/dev/loop0".

OK.

>[...] Unless you're working for Osama bin Laden, I'd say just
>use /dev/zero.

OK

>> then mkfs and mount and that's it...
>
>On the *loop* device, not the partition.

Of course

>Are you on the linux-crypto mailing list? You might find more help there
>than here. (Personally I don't have enough time to keep up in either
>place. I'll try to check in for a followup here though.)

Thanks for your help. I once browsed through the archives of that
mailing list via <http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/>, but didn't
have the feeling that my particular problem was discussed before.
Maybe I'm wrong, I didn't find a search interface... The only things I
found with google are
<http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/2002-01/msg00045.html>
and
http://lists.kernelnotes.de/lugbonn/2002-March/004201.html
which didn't help so much.

Anyway I'll post my error msg to the mailing list after I did a little
more homework and try to fix this by myself....

Thanks a lot

Thorsten