I made that change and ran into two issues:
1. I get circular dependency error for sillymod.o
2. I still get sillymod: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel msg. And, printk did not work.
/kmk
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From: "K.R. Foley" <kr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Apr 20 12:08:30 CDT 2005
To: kmkumar@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Fwd: NEWBIE!: What is wrong with this Makefile?]
Muthu Kumar wrote:
> I've test module that spans two files. sillymod.c and sillymod_test.c.
> I use the following Makefile to compile the module under 2.6 kernel.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> ifeq ($(KSRC),)
> KSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358custom/build
> endif
>
> obj-m := sillymod.o
> sillymod-objs := sillymod_test.o
To start with add sillymod.o the line above like:
sillymod-objs := sillymod_test.o sillymod.o
>
> build:
> make -C $(KSRC) SUBDIRS=`pwd` modules
>
> install:
> @# completely broken ATM - removes the whole dir
> @#make -C $(KSRC) SUBDIRS=`pwd` modules_install
> @echo "Install it yourself ..."
>
> clean:
> @# kbuild can't handle this (yet ?)
> @#make -C $(KSRC) SUBDIRS=`pwd` clean
> rm -f *.o *.ko *.mod.o *.mod.c .*.{cmd,flags}
> rm -rf config.status config.log autom4te*.cache
>
> ----------------------------------
>
> When I insmod sillymod.ko, I get "module license 'unspecified' taints kernel
> error. And, printk didnt work.
>
> If I comment out sillymod-objs line from the Makefile, then I don't get the
> above error and printk works!
>
> The MODULE_LICENSE macro is in sillymod.c.
>
> Whats up with this Makefile?
>
> Thanks
> /kmk
>
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