On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 08:19:14PM +0530, Narendra Kulkarni wrote: > I am building a module usb-skeleton.o with following compiler options (The > complier options are same as the options of used for building kernel) > > /opt/brcm/hndtools-mipsel-linux-3.2.3/bin/mipsel-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/ > usr/src/mipslinux/src/linux/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-tri > graphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/src/ > mipslinux/src/linux/linux/../../include -I/usr/src/mipslinux/src/linux/linux > /include/asm/gcc -G > -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe -mips2 -mlong-calls -nostdinc -iwithprefix > include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=usb-skeleton -c -o usb-skeleton.o usb-skeleton.c > > When insmoding the usb-skeleton.o, insmod usb-skeleton.o > I am getting the following erros > Using usb-skeleton.o > insmod: Relocation overflow of type 4 for __copy_user > insmod: Relocation overflow of type 4 for __copy_user > insmod: Relocation overflow of type 4 for __copy_user > > Where am i going wrong. Help would be appreciated. Seems your compiler command line is missing -DMODULE. Ralf