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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:05:24 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: M?ns Rullg?rd <mru@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Writing modules for 2.5
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:00:45PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> 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?

Yes.

-Andi