[Openswan Users] openswan-2.4.3.kernel-2.6-klips.patch

[Paul Wouters]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Giovani Moda wrote:

> I'm trying to compile the new klips code into kernel and I'm getting an
> odd error. It says:
>
> Configuration error: 'IPsec Modular Extensions' cannot be compiled because
> your kernel does not support module loading. Either enable kernel modules
> or disable 'IPsec Modular Extensions
>
> But here is the deal: I'm compiling from FC2 kernel source rpm, and adding
> the patches to kernel-2.6.spec. So I'm PRETTY sure that Kernel Modules are
> enable. If there is any doubt, here is part of my .config file:

But did you enable CRYPTO API modules?

> I tried commentig out
>
> +#if ! defined (MODULE)
> +#error "Configuration error: 'IPsec Modular Extensions' cannot be
> compiled because your kernel does not support module loading. Either
> enable kernel modules or disable 'IPsec Modular Extensions'
> (CONFIG_KLIPS_ALG)."
> +#endif

I guess the check needs fixing. Assgiend bug #499

> but another error came up then.
>
> So, unless I'm very mistaken about what kernel module loading support are,
> it seems that the patch cannot identify correctly my kernel module
> support.
>
> Is there any workaround?

I am not entirely sure if you have crypto api support enabled, that might
be the problem as well. Though if so, we should report that error instead.

Paul