linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc[1,2]: failed to setup dm-crypt key mapping

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Message-ID: <20080220172449.GD27726@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:24:49 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Milan Broz <mbroz@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <m.s.tsirkin@...il.com>,
	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, dm-crypt@...ut.de
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc[1,2]: failed to setup dm-crypt key mapping

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:23:21PM +0100, Milan Broz wrote:
>
> It seems that some module dependency was lost, 
> dm-crypt with async crypto depends now on crypto_blkcipher module
> for this configuration.
> 
> Herbert, any following change required for dm-crypt or it is only
> crypto subsystem issue?
> (With old kernel/dm-crypt it loads "blkcipher" not "crypto_blkcipher",
> maybe some initramdisk change required too...)

Right blkcipher was renamed to crypto_blkcipher due to the merge
of blkcipher/ablkcipher.  If this is causing a problem with the
initramfs then we need to fix the initramfs tools to look at the
actual dependencies rather than hard-coding it.

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