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

[Maxim Fomin]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:
> 11.02.2017 17:37, Xen пишет:
>> 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?
>>
>
> Both. We have nothing to put in grub.cfg so that we can identify device
> later during boot.
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Well, this explains me your line of thinking. Sure, prober cannot
detect required
parameters for plain dm-crypt, but this is theoretically impossible,
so why bother?

Either user supplies command with dm-crypt parameters into config file
or executes
manually during the boot. What is the problem here?