Description of problem: In RHEL 5.2 beta, kernel version 2.6.18-84.el5. When ever i try to load the aes module, it tries to load the padlock.ko module and fails. The aes module seems to have been replaced by aes_generic in 5.2 is this a bug? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@huzaifas ~]# uname -r 2.6.18-84.el5 [root@huzaifas ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.2 Beta (Tikanga) How reproducible: [root@huzaifas ~]# modprobe aes WARNING: Error inserting padlock (/lib/modules/2.6.18-84.el5/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock.ko): No such device [root@huzaifas ~]# lsmod | grep aes aes_generic 31745 0 aes_i586 37057 1
I guess aes module is replaced aes_generic in 5.2 and aes now implies the padlock dep. module. This should be put in the release notes.
If i wasnt clear on my above comments then: RHEL 5/5.1 aes = arch independent RHEL 5.2 aes = dep on padlock aes_generic = arch independent
Hrmm... AFAICT, aes_generic does not require the padlock module -- furthermore, the padlock module is not built in RHEL5. Closing as WORKSFORME. Huzaifa, please re-open this BZ if this still doesn't work for you. P.
It doesn't require padlock, but padlock is one of the modules that provide the alias aes. Therefore if you load aes on a kernel with padlock built as a module it will attempt to load the padlock module as well as all other AES implementations. Failing to load the padlock module when padlock is not available is expected and not an error.
*** Bug 437272 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***