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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
| On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 17:47 +0000, Jon Masters wrote: | |>On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:13:17 -0600, Timur Tabi <timur.tabi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: |> |>>Arjan van de Ven wrote: |>> |>> |>>>and you are loading your module in to ONLY the kernel you compiled with |>>>your new .config ? |>> |>>Well, not exactly. I'm assuming that the .config file that was supplied |>>with Fedora is an exact match of the kernel that was installed. Every |>>other distribution I've worked with provides the correct configuration |>>file, which eliminates the need for me to compile and load a kernel.
|>You *have* to actually build the kernel with whichever configuration |>file you eventually figure out Fedora 3 is using. The kbuild modules |>process now requires a copy of the actual object files - it's not just |>sufficient to have a config file and headers installed somewhere. This |>is partly because the extra linking stages for modules really want |>some symbols defined during a kernel build.
| you are incorrect. what fedora ships in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build is | sufficient. And you *have* to use that.
My point was that you have to build a module against a valid build. The above should have been a hint that I'm not a Fedora user so if you make further requirements on the build process then that's your issue :-). Technically, I'm still correct, just you built it first.
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