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* [PATCH] rt-tests: Better explanation in the kernel module
@ 2009-12-22  0:11 John Kacur
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From: John Kacur @ 2009-12-22  0:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Clark Williams, Carsten Emde, Thomas Gleixner; +Cc: linux-rt-users

Clark: I'm not sure how we missed Carsten's patch again.
you can pull the following and the last clean-up from
rt-tests-dev-new
and the usual git repo
(notice the branch has changed)

Thanks

>From 77c00420d06ec5010a251d4ecac1f74201cd20ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:58:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] rt-tests: Better explanation in the kernel module

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
---
 src/backfire/sendme.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backfire/sendme.c b/src/backfire/sendme.c
index fdc1056..27ea077 100644
--- a/src/backfire/sendme.c
+++ b/src/backfire/sendme.c
@@ -209,7 +209,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	path = open("/dev/backfire", O_RDWR);
 	if (path < 0) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: Could not access backfire device, "
-				"try 'modprobe backfire'\n");
+				"try 'modprobe backfire'\n"
+				"If the module backfire can't be loaded, "
+				"it may need to be built first.\n"
+				"Execute 'cd src/backfire; make' in the "
+				"rt-tests directory (requires rt-tests\n"
+				"sources and kernel-devel package).\n");
 		return 1;
 	}
 	fl.l_type = F_WRLCK;
-- 
1.6.0.6


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