> > --- Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:35:23AM -0700, Sam Pham > > wrote: > > > The Linux Device Drivers book says that it't not > > > required to have linux 2.6 running. > > > > In order to load a 2.6 driver? Please show me where > > it says that and I will go fix it... > > On Thursday 21 April 2005 20:06, Sam Pham wrote: > The paragraph in the middle of page 23 of "Linux > Device Drivers" book, 3rd edition, says: "... You > cannot build loadable modules for 2.6 kernel without > this tree on your filesystem. It is also helpful > (though NOT required) to be actually running the > kernel that you are building for". The keywords here are "load" and "build". You can _build_ modules for a kernel that is different from what you are running, but you cannot _load_ (insmod) them until you reboot with the matching kernel. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
