Re: Is this a newbie question?

This is a bit too far down the food chain, I am well versed in loading
and unloading modules.

What I need is assistance with the creation of custom modules for a
kernel from a chunk of module code. Right now I am putting the module
file usbserial.c into the $kernel_source/drivers/usb/serial/ directory
and running "make modules".

this creates a module, but when I try to replace the module in the lib
directory, it throws a bunch of errors like
"usbserial: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module"
I am looking for a step by step guide on how to properly create kernel
modules to load into a kernel. In this case the stock modules are not
the required version.

The last resort will be to go to a custom kernel, but I like stock
kernels that I don't have to compile (Gentoo hangover).

Cheers

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:25 -0600, Alan Clements wrote:
> have you tried using 'modprobe [module]' (without the extention)?
> if this works properly then you can add it to the /etc/modules list. This will allow it to be autoloaded. You may have to use the full pathname in both instances.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brock Campbell <lists@acceltech.ca>
> Date: Thursday, May 4, 2006 9:01 pm
> Subject: Is this a newbie question?
>
> > I need to create a custom module for my stock dapper kernel. I've
> > triedcompiling from source and doing the the make modules && make
> > modules_install thing, but it just dumps the module into another
> > librarydirectory and ignores it at load time.
> >
> > I know this should be a simple thing, but I'm stuck. can anybody
> > give me
> > a shove in the right direction?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
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Received on Sun May 7 22:10:10 2006