On Sat, 31 May 2003, Pat LaVarre wrote: > How do I rename the kernel I'm building? > In the top level Makefile, play with the extraversion. You'll need to run `make dep' after this, at least for 2.4, and you'll need to make clean or mrproper if you've built anything, so save the .config ! > And is that the same question as: > > How do I build a module to try loading into whatever > kernel? > I think it's quite different. As a total newbie here, I don't plan to answer that, but there are some details in the FAQ referred to at the bottom of this mail. > My uname-r is "2.4.20-xfs". > > >From http://www.kernel.org/ I fetched 2.4.20 and built > a new drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.o. > > If I copy what I built to > /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs/kernel/ then modprobe chokes > via: > > ...: couldn't find the kernel version the module was > compiled for > ...: insmod ... failed > ...: insmod usb-storage failed > > I presume I've built a 2.4.20 module and not a > 2.4.20-xfs module, ouch. Why don't you compile the kernel again, in it's entirety, with a different extraversion ? That way, it should all fit together with itself, and you don't overwrite existing files. One of the worst things you can have, IMHO, is a mixture of incompatible modules in the same directory (say, you changed options for what was built as modules / built in, and have left-over modules from the first attempt which no longer load). Ken > > How do I build a module to try loading into whatever > kernel? > > Pat LaVarre > > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > -- Live Long or Prosper! No, wait, that wasn't it... -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
