Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 23:47 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>>On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 22:08 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>>>On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 21:48 -0600, William wrote:
>>>>If you're interested in what I have, here's an archive link to one of my
>>>>older posts on this very topic:
>>>>http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-August/009501.html
>>>
>>>----
>>>that sounds simple enough...I've got a CentOS 4 system that I'm updating
>>>right now before I download the module source and compile it. Let's see
>>>how far I get.
>>----
>>I'm sort of stuck where you are...
>>
>>anyone to toss a bone here on compiling kernel modules
>>
>>I'm following the release notes:
>>Note
>>An exploded source tree is not required to build kernel modules against
>>the currently in-use kernel.
>>
>>For example, to build the foo.ko module, create the following file
>>(named Makefile) in the directory containing the foo.c file:
>>
>>
>>obj-m := foo.o
>>
>>KDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
>>PWD := $(shell pwd)
>>
>>default:
>> $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
>>
>>so
>># ls -l
>>total 204
>>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137 Aug 13 23:36 Makefile
>>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140 Aug 13 23:33 Makefile~
>>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118447 Jun 24 12:42 megaraid.c
>>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29506 Jun 24 12:42 megaraid.h
>>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2808 Jun 24 13:04 scsi.h
>>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4146 Jun 24 13:05 scsi_obsolete.h
>>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 215 Jun 24 13:05 scsi_typedefs.h
>>
>># cat Makefile
>>obj-m := megaraid.o
>>
>>KDIR := /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/build
>>PWD := $(shell pwd)
>>
>>default:
>> $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
>>
>>then running the following...I'm shooting blanks...
>>
>># make -w
>>make: Entering directory `/usr/src/megaraid'
>>make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/megaraid modules
>>make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/build'
>>make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
>>make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/build'
>>make: *** [default] Error 2
>>make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/megaraid'
>>
>>Anyone care to toss a bone my way?
>
> ----
> Solved
>
> yum install kernel-devel didn't work because like a moron, I was in smp
> kernel and so I needed to yum install kernel-smp-devel which then made
> it all work but of course the boot cd is a uni-processor so I will have
> to wait until I can reboot the production machine into a uni-processor
> mode to compile a suitable module to test
Please keep us posted on your progress. I too am stuck at Centos 3
because of an old Megaraid controller.
Thanks,
Ajay
