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Re: Module problems!



Quoting Ramakrishnan M (rkrishnan@vayu.ee.iitm.ernet.in):
> hello,
>       I had been reading the Linux Device Drivers,and tried running the
> first program.
> #define KERNEL
> #include ...
> ...init_module(...)
> .....

That first line is wrong, but I guess you copied into the email
wrongly.

> when I do insmod prog.o it says the program has been compiled to run on
> kernel 2.2.5 and the running kernel is 2.2.10. Sure! I have 2.2.10 kernel
> running but I am not able to understand the 2.2.5 business. Itried
> installing an older kernel and recompiled it,with no useful result.Please
> help!

I compile modules with something like

gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I. -I/usr/local/src/linux/include \
-O2 -m486 -g -Wall -c $@ -o foo.o foo.c

where linux is a link to the kernel source tree. Now that
kernel-source packages just install a .tgz file rather than
the tree, and you have to untar the tree yourself, you have
to make sure that link is correct (or use the full name
-I/usr/local/src/kernel-source-2.2.10/include instead).

Cheers,

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