Re: loop-aes with loop=m in kernel?

[Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>]

Iain wrote:
> Ok, I guess what my question boils down to is this. Debian has a number of
> prebuilt kernels that include loopback support as a module. If I install one
> of these then remove loop.o and replace it with the loop-aes module will I
> have any problems? Assuming I have of course built loop-aes using the kernel
> config from the prebuilt kernel.

That should work just fine as long as kernel .config and kernel compile time
generated files match those files that were used to build prebuilt kernel.
Meaning that you have to recompile kernel on the build box (to get those
generated files correct), but compiled loop.o binary can be distributed and
used on any box that uses precompiled kernel.

Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>

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