Re: Writing modules for 2.5

From: Måns Rullgård (mru@users.sourceforge.net)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 07:00:45 EST

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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

> > What magic needs to be done when writing modules for linux 2.5.x?
> > Insmod tells me "Invalid module format" and the kernel log says "No
> > module found in object". I've tried to mimic the foo.mod.c stuff in
> > the kernel tree, but I can't figure out the right way to do it.
>
> Welcome to the wonderful new world of in kernel module loading, finally
> with understandable error messages. Now bad error reporting is not limited
> to netlink anymore.
>
> You need -DKBUILD_BASENAME=name

Should I also add -DKBUILD_MODNAME=name?

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