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RE: announce; monolithic versions of the cryptoapi branch!
Mr. Riedel:
Perhaps we could have an update to the list as to what the status of bugs and features are in the current release? I would love to seem some definitive documentation as to what is in progress, what the patch is inclusive of, etc.
Is this a possibility?
With all the discussion of patches and working vs. not working, monolithic, etc., I am leaning more and more towards just using Jari's code. It does seem a bit easier to deal with given so many of the kernel issues.
I would enjoy seeing a project status (in full) prior to making that decision.
Very Respectfully,
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Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:11 AM
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-linux-crypto@nl.linux.org [mailto:owner-linux-crypto@nl.linux.org] On Behalf Of Herbert Valerio Riedel
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 2:31 AM
To: linux-crypto@nl.linux.org
Subject: announce; monolithic versions of the cryptoapi branch!
Since having kernel modules is not always a good idea, I've started to put
together a handmade kernel patch...
in ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hvr/ you'll find
cryptoapi-2.4.10-pre4-xfs.diff.bz2/gz
which is taken against the SGI/XFS enhanced 2.4.10-pre4 kernel version;
and
cryptoapi-2.4.8.diff.bz2/gz
which has been diff'ed against a plain 2.4.8 (it should apply with minor
problems against later kernel versions as well)
I haven't done much testing yet with those patch versions of the cryptoapi
branch, but I don't expect any major problems as the code itself is the
same as the cryptoapi module versions; (either it works from the
beginning, or maybe you'll get a kernel panic when booting or setting up
the cryptodevice...); If you got scared by this statement, then just don't
apply this patch :-)
If you experience any problems, please report them so I can fix them... :-)
ps: there's also a new util-linux-2.11i.patch in that directory, which
includes some contributed fixes/improvements, regarding the keybits
option passing for mount(8)
regards,
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