Good point! That explains why I'm in this mailing list :). Sam --- Jim Bauer <jfbauer@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > --- 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/ > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
