On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 02:51:00PM +0530, C.Mohanasundaram wrote: [People, *please* learn how to quote. Including all the irrelevant bits of previous messages is *not* good netiquette.] > "your module > > will be loaded automatically when a user uses your module (thro system > > call)" > u mean when the user uses my new system call. > > anyway > i checked /lib/modules/2.4.2-2/ directory > there is no misc directory under it > so i created a directory in the name "misc" and put my module inside that > directory and called the system call using a user program it didnt work. You need to run "depmod -a" after that or otherwise modprobe won't find it. > I wonder how the kernel will know which module to be loaded. The kernel doesn't know, it just asks modprobe to do the dirty job. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
