Hi Ole, Well you have a point. :-) ATARI_PARTITION can only be y or n I guess. I'm sorry, I'm still learning this stuff. Thanks, -Joel On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Ole Loots <ole@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > i did what you told me but as expected make outputs the following: > > scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig > .config:150:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for ATARI_PARTITION > > ...but I grep'ped /proc/kallsyms and it seems that ATARI_PARTITION type is > already registered. however, dmesg tells me "Unknown partition table" when I > put the CF card into my reader... :( I'll have to get along with it. > > Joel Fernandes schrieb: >> >> >From fs/partitions/Makefile, it seems that atari partitions can be >> compiled as a kernel module. >> You also wouldn't need to recompile the kernel just for this. >> > > Why do you think that? The Makefile says: > obj-$(CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION) += atari.o > > And all of the Partition types in fs/partitions ain't got functions like > module_init .... looks like this is a problem in the kernel. > If I could load it as module, I could have inserted debug messages into it, > without recompiling the whole kernel... ;) > >> On Ubuntu, >> 1. apt-get source linux-image-`uname -r` >> 2. Extract the bziped archived to /usr/src/linux-`uname -r` >> 3. cp /boot/config-`uname -r` /usr/src/linux-`uname -r`/.config >> 4. edit .config and set CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION to m >> 5. While in /usr/src/linux-`uname -r` , run make fs/partitions/atari.ko >> 6. Copy fs/partitions/atari.ko to /lib/modules/`uname >> -r`/kernel/fs/partitions/ and run depmod. >> 7. modprobe atari >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> -Joel >> >> >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
