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From: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] building kernel modules
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:58:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091111005818.GC29442@buzzloop.caiaq.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF9A069.80404@cs.ucsb.edu>

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:18:33AM -0800, Roman Chertov wrote:
> Turns out it was a division of a long that was causing that.  After I
> changed the long to a uint32_t then the problem went away.  Now, I have
> to figure out why I cannot insert the module.
> 
> musec_can: unknown relocation: 40
> insmod: can't insert
> '/proj/tools/can_driver/musec_can/src/musec_can.ko': invalid module format
> 
> Modules built during the kernel built work fine.  I guess I have to
> figure out what linker setting I am missing.

See dmesg for more of the reason. There's a comprehensive guideline I
can point you to, just in case that differs from what you did:

  http://lwn.net/Articles/21823/

> > After all, what you're seeing is an effect that has to do with your
> > code, the kernel and gcc. And not with buildroot :)
> 
> True.  I was just hoping that somebody would give me a starting point as
>   I new to cross compiling :)  Thanks for the help.

No problem :)

Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-11  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-05 21:59 [Buildroot] building kernel modules Roman Chertov
2009-11-09  5:28 ` Roman Chertov
2009-11-09  6:58   ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 22:38     ` Roman Chertov
2009-11-09 22:59       ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-10 17:18         ` Roman Chertov
2009-11-11  0:58           ` Daniel Mack [this message]
2009-11-11 19:52             ` Roman Chertov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-24 17:00 Brian Beattie

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