Loop AES and linux 2.4.16

[linux.crypto@charsley.com (Mark Charsley)]

I had loop-AES 1.4e running fine with linux 2.4.8. I then upgraded my 
kernel to 2.4.16 to get ext3, and loop-AES stopped working. Upgrading to 
loop-AES 1.5b hasn't helped either.

With 1.4e, everything builds OK, but running depmod -a gives 

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.16/block/loop.o

and running "make tests" gives 

dd if=/dev/zero of=test-file1 bs=1024 count=10
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
cp test-file1 test-file3
echo 12345678901234567890 | losetup -p 0 -e AES128 /dev/loop7 test-file1
ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument

presumably as a result of being unable to pull in a working loop.o module

With 1.5b everything build OK, depmod is happy, but again running "make 
tests" gives the same error.

The relevant bits out of /usr/src/linux/.config are

CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y

# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set

Can someone help a baffled Windows C++ developer diagnose what he's doing 
wrong?

Many TIA

Mark
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