Bug#358452: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#358452: initramfs cryptroot functionality

[Jonas Meurer]

On 03/05/2006 Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:21:25AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> > how about this from README.initramfs, also from the svn repository:
>  
> > > 5. LUKS support
> > > ---------------
> > > If you are using the LUKS feature of cryptsetup, the above recipe should
> > > still work without any changes. However, you can then remove the cipher,
> > > size and hash arguments in /etc/crypttab as they will be automatically
> > > derived from the information stored in the luks header on-disk.
>  
> > i don't know the initramfs implementation very well, David Härdeman has
> > done all the work. but at least the documentation sounds like exactly
> > what you suggested is already done.
> 
> If you remove cipher and hash arguments from /etc/crypttab, the
> initramfs hook script will not copy the cipher and hash kernel 
> modules to initramfs. That is what my patch fixes.

which patch do you mean here? can you resend it to me?

...
 jonas