truecrypt

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Tue Sep 25 17:13:12 UTC 2007


Jima wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Neal Becker wrote:
>> Has anyone looked at truecrypt?  Looks interesting.  I D/L the source, but
>> it says:
>>
>>  Note that Linux kernel headers, located in the 'include' directory, are
>>  not sufficient for compilation of the TrueCrypt kernel module. Fields of
>>  'dm_dev' structure must be accessed by TrueCrypt but they are defined only
>> in
>>  an internal kernel header 'drivers/md/dm.h'. No appropriate accessor
>> function
>>  is available. The complete source code of the Linux kernel is required for
>>  compilation of the kernel module.
> 
>   Don't we BR kernel-devel when building kmods anyway?  I don't think this 
> is a problem at all.  (Aside from the possibility of kmod packaging going 
> anyway, anyway.)

But, drivers/md/dm.h is not in kernel-devel.

-Eric




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