On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 17:08 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I was trying to compile loop-aes-source, but it keeps failing. Why not use dm-crypt? > For some > reason it kept thinking the kernel version was 2.6, when it is in > fact 3.16. The problem is that it looks at the VERSION and PATCHLEVEL > in the Makefile of the headers, which for some reason is being modified > to read 2 and 6 in the debian kernel package. We don't modify the main Makefile. You're looking at a wrapper makefile. > What is the point in doing this? Why punish module source packages that > correctly know how to handle 3.x kernels just to deal with old broken > ones that assumed 2.6 forever? grepping a makefile is not 'correct'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less.
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