On 7/1/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 06:40 +0100, pankaj chauhan wrote: > hi all, > > i have a module say my_mod.ko, which is composed to > two two binaries say my_mod1.o and my_mod2.o. I am > trying to insmod this module on 2.6.11, which is > compiled by gcc 3.4.3, If i compile my_mod1 and > my_mod2 with gcc3.4.3 and my_mod.ko gets insmoded with > no problems. But if my_mod2.o is compiled with gcc > 2.95 then my_mod.ko does not get insmoded and it says > "Invalid module format: unknown error 8". you really don't want to do that... it's a real pain to do this even; you don't expect your users to have two compilers installed to compile your module I hope... I strongly suggest that you fix the second part so that gcc 3.x and 4.x can just compile it, so that more people are likely to use it... Again, expecting users to have 2 compilers installed is ... asking too much. (and gcc 2.x and 3.x have a different ABI for some kernel things so you really don't want to mix it; and more and more gcc 2.x workarounds are being removed from the kernel now, so the chance that you'll hit a compiler bug are getting really big)
BTW, how did you compile the two files differently? for 2.6 kernels, you've to use kbuild right? Can you please show me your Makefile. Thanks, Jinesh. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
