Re: insmod segfault in pci_find_subsys()

[Toralf Lund <toralf@procaptura.com>]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 01:49:10PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
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>>Yes. As I've (also) already said elsewhere, I knew that, really. The 
>>current build setup fails to do this partly for historical reasons, 
>>partly because the driver also supports different OSes. (And is still 
>>expected to build correctly with Linux 2.4, not just 2.6.)
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Hmmm. Seems like my original reply to this message got lost...

>Following trick works with both 2.4 and 2.6:
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>makefile:
>all:
>	$(MAKE) -C Kernel_src_path SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
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>Makefile:
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>obj-m := mymodule.o
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>It obtains CFLAGS as expected etc.
>People seems to do their best to avoid such a simple setup :-(
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What? Write a simple makefile that a normal human being may actually 
understand? Not autogenerate something utterly unreadable from something 
that's autogenerated from something that's ... ???

It's not *quite* that simple with the module I'm talking about, though, 
as the source code is split into several files. Which is a Good Thing, IMO.

Also, I was unsure if this would work with Linux 2.4 (but I was going to 
test it)...

>	Sam
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