--- Jinesh K J <jineshkj.newsletters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. In my case the restriction was that source code of one of the binaries was not available to me, and i had to use APIs from that binary and it was compiled with gcc 2.95 and i was compiling rest of the files with gcc 3.4.3 > > Thanks, > > Jinesh. > Vision without action is merely a dream, action without vision is wastage of time, vision and action together can change the world .... __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
