From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020916 Description of problem: although the stock kernel ships with cryptoloop modules, there's no way to use it without recompiling the util-linux src rpm; see http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~hvr/crypto/redhat-8.0/ for util-linux rpms with enabled cryptoloop support; Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.11r-10 How reproducible: Always
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56698 ***
this doesn look like a duplicate; the other bug was long before redhat shipped any patch-int patched kernel; it makes not much sense to ship the kernel rpm with cryptoloop and the actual strong encryption ciphers (!) for kernelspace ... and NOT add that few ioctl()'s to the user-space util-linux package... (that's like shipping a complete fireworks set, but not providing the fire-lighter -- ok, the comparisions not perfect... ;)
The main point of the other bug was that our util-linux package will get crypto support once the upstream maintainer integrates it. That continues to be the case.
I don't understand Red Hat's attitude here. The kernel has been patched to include crypto support that isn't in the stock source, but they don't patch the utilities that make it possible to use it. So what was the point of patching the kernel?