From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261242AbTDOLtp (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 07:49:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261258AbTDOLtp (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 07:49:45 -0400 Received: from c-97a870d5.037-69-73746f23.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([213.112.168.151]:51585 "EHLO zaphod.guide") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261242AbTDOLto (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 07:49:44 -0400 To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Writing modules for 2.5 References: From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Date: 15 Apr 2003 14:00:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen 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? -- Måns Rullgård mru@users.sf.net