Hello,
A while ago I read Rubbini's Device driver book. I couldn't complile the
simple "Hello World" module due to "Version Mismatch". Using "insmod -f"
worked but then "rmmod" couldn't unload the module" and rebooting was
required. So, I just went ahead and compiled the pseudo driver into the
kernel instead of as a module.
I would still like to be able to be able to write a driver as a module in
Linux and avoid the long compile reboot cycle. Can someone give me
poitners how to get over the version mismatch ?
My kernel version is 2.4.20 (Red Hat 8.0) and far as I remember , module.h
wants "2.4.9" or something.
The following attempts did not succeed:
1. Make menuconfig..............
Set version information on modules = "NO"
In this case the OS wouldn't boot properly. It could mount the filesystem
saying "optional symbols" could not be found.
2. Instead of #include <linux/module.h>, I tried
# include "/home/tony/mykernel/include/linux/module.h"
There is no difference in results in this case.
Thanks,
Tony
--
Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel.
Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/
FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
