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From: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: Invalid module format - how does one fix this?
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 09:59:33 -0500
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On November 24, 2002 09:25 am, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org> writes:
> > FATAL: Error inserting /lib/modules/2.5.49-mm1/kernel/ac97_codec.o:
> > Invalid module format
> >
> > I get this on about 10% of the modules I want to load.  How do I fix it?
>
> readelf -r module_in_question.o
>
> then look at arch/$ARCH/kernel/module.c and find out which relocation
> is not implemented. Then implement it. Enabling DEBUGP there and in
> kernel/module.c may also help.

Looking in i386/kernel/module.c, it should be using printk to tell me
what is missing.  I am not seeing these in my logs.  Is there some /proc or
/sys setting I need to change to see warnings?

Tia,
Ed Tomlinson