On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 07:57:01PM +0800, Navy Cheng wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 09:43:56PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:57:42PM +0800, Navy Cheng wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > My kernel version is v4.4, and I have built drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc.ko. > > > I change to *dir*/drivers/staging/dgnc and do like this: > > > > > > sudo insmod ./dgnc.ko > > > > Do you have the hardware that this driver controls? > > I'm not sure. My laptop is Dell Inspiron 14R - 5437 and I don't know if > there is the right hardware. I often don't know about what a driver is used > for in drivers/staging/. Is there any good way to know the function of a > driver or module? If you don't think you have the hardware, then almost always, you don't have the hardware, it's pretty simple :) > > > > > sudo lsmod | grep dgnc > > > > Does that show anything? > > Output: dgnc 65536 0 Great, it loaded, then crashes when you unload, congratulations, you can now work on fixing that bug! good luck, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
