On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Rakesh Kumar<gopchandani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello All, > > So, I pulled kernel source from the git (correspondes to 2.6.30 and > also other dev patches happening) and executed make in the folder > which resulted in compilation of the whole kernel and also modules in > the source I downloaded. I am particular interested in ath9k wireless > drivers. My machine has kernel version 2.6.27-14 (Ubuntu 8.10) and > it also already contains ath9k module. What I wanted to do was to > download latest code for ath9k and replace/temporarily load the new > module instead of one I have currently. I rmmod ath9k and tried to: > > rakesh@pineapple:~/wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k$ > sudo insmod ath9k.ko > > which results in: > > insmod: error inserting 'ath9k.ko': -1 Invalid module format > > and dmesg says: > > [82375.379869] ath9k: no symbol version for struct_module > > I looked up for this error: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/22/1 > > It says that I am supposed to have compiled the kernel being used and > the module in question both with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=Y > > I do know that my .config file has CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=Y and I also > verified it by checking the CRC tags which are generated as a result > such configuration during compilation according to this: > http://www.skynet.ie/~mark/home/kernel/symbols.html > > But what I am stuck on is how to compile a kernel module with > CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=Y, I suppose when I run make for the pulled code, > it uses this tag inherently for modules also but I am not sure about > that. > > So what am I missing her which would compile the module right to be > plugged into a slightly older kernel version? You can't do that, you would need a backport. We have automatic backports available at: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download that's bleeding edge though, from wireless-testing, if you want 2.6.30 stuff check out: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable/ Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
