Re: loop-aes does not work with sector sizes != 512 byte

[Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@hvrlab.org>]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> > OK, I found the bug. Loop driver says "I have 512 byte sectors" regardless
> > of what hard sector size of underlying device is. Don't blame me for this
> > bug, it is a genuine loop bug.
> ...which reminds me: Jari, any success getting your loop fixes fed to 
> Marcelo & Linus for inclusion in the standard kernel? I remember seeing a 
> the subject being briefly mentioned on lkml but haven't really followed up 
> whether they got applied or not. Would be nice to have a working loop 
> driver in the stock kernel for a change....

...tell that marcelo and/or linus... they are the ones to convince. :-)

marcelo doesn't feel comfortable enough to change the semantics in a 2.4.x 
kernel... I couldn't convince him yet, that everyone doing serious loop 
encryption, is applying patches to his loop-driver anyway... 

at least andrea arcangeli has included 

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.19pre7aa1/00_loop-IV-API-hvr-1

for some time in his -aa series...

...this gives a little hope :-)

regards,
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