Re: Nokia c110 driver

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 01:22:26 +0200 Kliment Yanev wrote:

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| Randy.Dunlap wrote:
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| | I have no idea where these symbols live or come from.
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| I found them! they are in the binary-only part of the driver but for
| some reason they are not getting linked into the .ko file. I tried
| linking them manually but then I get an "invalid module format"

I looked there but didn't see such symbols (using 'nm').
What did you use to see them?
The strings that I see all seem to contain 16-bit characters.


| | You know, it's possible that you could purchase a card that already
| | works on Linux 2.6.... that might be a better solution than trying
| | to use an unknown binary module.

Well, Sam Ravnborg did post a patch in the last week or so that
should help with (some) binary files...  probably .o and not .bin,
or maybe it doesn't matter.


| At this point I am doing this just to see if it will work... I don't
| need the card for another week or so and if I don't get this one to work
| I'll just buy another one. Yet I have the feeling that this card will
| work before long... if only I could get those files linked that is...
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| My makefile (dhw, dap, dmgr and dcfg are in the binary parts, present in
| the current dir as dhw.o etc.; all the others are .c files that get
| compiled during a make):
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| ~    ifneq ($(KERNELRELEASE),)
| ~    obj-m       := nokia_c110.o
| ~    module-objs := dllc.o dtools.o dhw.o dap.o dmgr.o dcfg.o
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| ~    else
| ~    KDIR        := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
| ~    PWD         := $(shell pwd)
| 
| ~    default:
| ~        $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
| ~    endif

--
~Randy