Stijn Vander Maelen wrote:
>
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
>
> > Eric Kristopher Sandall wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Michael Zhu wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi, I built a kernel module. I can load it into the
> > > > kernle using insmod command. But each time when I
> > > > reboot my computer I couldn't find it any more. I mean
> > > > I need to use the insmod to load the module each time
> > > > I reboot the computer. How can I modify the
> > > > configuration so that the Linux OS can load my module
> > > > automatically during reboot? I need to copy my module
> > > > to the following directory?
> > > > /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/
> > >
> > > You don't need to do this, actually, you should _not_ do this.
> >
> > Forgive me, but how else, without copying the module.o to
> > /lib/modules/<version>/... and doing "depmod module.o",
> > is the kernel able to find the module in order to load it?
> > Is not /lib/modules/<version> the standard place to install
> > module binaries?
>
> indeed, /lib/modules/<version> is the standard place for all your modules.
> you don't have to put them there yourselve because there are scripts in
> the top makefile of your kernel that do it. my standard command is:
> $ make dep && make modules && make modules_install && make bzImage
>
> afterwards you can do:
> $ depmod -va
> to make the modules.dep file and warn for any unresolved symbols in your
> modules.
>
> when everything is finished you can modprobe your modules
Right. I'm just saying that if you've written your own
module, it makes more sense to do the "cp mymodule.o
/lib/modules/$VERSION ; depmod -a" dance, than to
try to keep track of the locations of modules scattered
all about the filesystem. My post was addressed
to the "you should _not_ do this" assertion by Mr
Sandall.
Cheers,
-- Joe
"Thanks to Microsoft, I am now blind in both eyes. They have
rolled back in my head so many times this week that they
are apparently stuck there now."
- Jonathan Rickman, regarding M$ anti-open-source PR.
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