Works for me.Can someone please confirm that loading and unloading of kernel modules is functioning in the 2.4 release?
When I try to load a wlan module that I compiled (with mipsel-*) I get relocation errors. I used the same options as I did to compile the kernel (for MIPS Malta board). If you have any ideas, please let me know.
Using gcc 3.3.1 to compile modules, I had to upgrade to modutils-2.4.25 and apply this patch to them:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:09:24 -0700, David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com> wrote:
Anyhow, I encountered a small problem trying to load a module compiled with gcc-3.3.1. The module has dwarf debugging info and could not be loaded by insmod. This patch causes MIPS_DWARF sections to be treated in the same manner as MIPS_DEBUG sections.
Also there was a fall through in the case statement that caused error messages to be printed twice for "Unhandled section header type".
Thanks. I already have an equivalent patch in my development tree (from Alvaro Martinez Echevarria). It is waiting for me to get some time to release modutils 2.4.26.
Index: 25.5/obj/obj_mips.c
--- 25.5/obj/obj_mips.c Fri, 01 Mar 2002 11:39:06 +1100 kaos (modutils-2.4/c/10_obj_mips.c 1.4 644)
+++ 26.2(w)/obj/obj_mips.c Sat, 05 Apr 2003 08:36:33 +1000 kaos (modutils-2.4/c/10_obj_mips.c 1.5 644)
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ arch_load_proc_section(struct obj_sectio
{
case SHT_MIPS_DEBUG:
case SHT_MIPS_REGINFO:
- /* Actually these two sections are as useless as something can be ... */
+ case SHT_MIPS_DWARF:
+ /* Ignore debugging sections */
sec->contents = NULL;
break;@@ -83,10 +84,10 @@ arch_load_proc_section(struct obj_sectio
case SHT_MIPS_GPTAB:
case SHT_MIPS_UCODE:
case SHT_MIPS_OPTIONS:
- case SHT_MIPS_DWARF:
case SHT_MIPS_EVENTS:
/* These shouldn't ever be in a module file. */
error("Unhandled section header type: %08x", sec->header.sh_type);
+ return -1; default:
/* We don't even know the type. This time it might as well be aDavid Daney
