Re: Support for plain dm-crypt and detached LUKS header

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Andrei Borzenkov schreef op 11-02-2017 15:29:
> 11.02.2017 17:11, Maxim Fomin пишет:
> >  I have not found any discussion of the issue.
>
> Just search for dm-crypt on grub-devel
>
> > Why create separate
> > module? It appears (I may be wrong) that this functionality can be
> > provided by existing module.
> >
> > By the way, why user should configure the module manually? My
> > understanding is that user should provide all necessary options to the
> > command (manually or via grub.cfg) which decrypts dm-crypt partition
> > just like in case of cryptsetup.
>
> cryptsetup works with self-identifying containers which dm-crypt is 
> not.

I take it you mean the detection required for grub-probe etc?

Is that only the generation phase of grub.cfg or also the execution of 
it by grub as the bootloader?