From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: cannot insmod sculld in ldd3
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:32:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170313083239.GA26006@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00355f0a-57da-e530-2ada-94b5eb9faeff@gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:19:58PM +0800, Freeman Zhang wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
>
> On 3/13/17 3:03 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>
> >
> > 'depmod' handles all of this when you install a kernel and its modules.
> >
>
> Thanks for that information, now I take 'depmod' seriously and stop
> making up inelegant methods. I studied the 'kmod', both its behaviors
> and codes, and got plenty of ideas about module symbol stuff.
>
> However, I am still wondering why copy Module.symvers file works too, at
> building time?
Because that is what depmod creates, you probably didn't change much, if
anything, from the kernel version you copied it from. But don't do
that, it is probably wrong.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-13 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-12 18:12 cannot insmod sculld in ldd3 Ali Aminian
2017-03-12 19:03 ` Greg KH
2017-03-13 4:19 ` Freeman Zhang
2017-03-13 8:32 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-03-13 13:44 ` Aruna Hewapathirane
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2017-03-12 3:17 Ali Aminian
2017-03-11 21:49 Ali Aminian
2017-03-10 16:49 Ali Aminian
2017-03-10 18:06 ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
2017-03-11 22:58 ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-03-12 8:55 ` Freeman Zhang
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