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On 09/02/2014 07:02 PM, tony wrote:
> Hi,
>     I am trying to build "backports-3.12.8-1" for my kernel 3.1.10. I am
> following the instructions in the backports wiki to cross compile for
> arm. But the compilation fails complaining "‘THIS_MODULE’ undeclared".
> As suggested by one of the earlier posts in the forum, I tried including
> #include <linux/module.h>
> before
> #include <linux/skbuff.h>
>  But it did not make any difference.Attached is a error log.
> 
> Thank you in advance for any help.

This looks strange. You have to compile your kernel with CONFIG_MODULES
activated, backports needs that.

compat/main.c includes linux/module.h and that file contains
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), but that is not found in your build.

Why are you using version 3.12, the current stable version is 3.16?

Hauke