Re: Load kernel module automatically

[Eric Kristopher Sandall <sandalle@wsunix.wsu.edu>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Joseph A Knapka wrote:

> Eric Kristopher Sandall wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Michael Zhu wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi, I built a kernel module. I can load it into the
> > > kernle using insmod command. But each time when I
> > > reboot my computer I couldn't find it any more. I mean
> > > I need to use the insmod to load the module each time
> > > I reboot the computer. How can I modify the
> > > configuration so that the Linux OS can load my module
> > > automatically during reboot? I need to copy my module
> > > to the following directory?
> > >   /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/
> > 
> > You don't need to do this, actually, you should _not_ do this.
> 
> Forgive me, but how else, without copying the module.o to
> /lib/modules/<version>/... and doing "depmod module.o",
> is the kernel able to find the module in order to load it?
> Is not /lib/modules/<version> the standard place to install
> module binaries?

Well, I assumed (and perhaps wrongly) that he'd done a 'make modules &&
make modules_install' after configuring his kernel, which would put the
modules into /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/ for him.

Had he not done this (or built a module himself/from 3rd-party), then yes,
he should copy it to /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/ and run depmod -a.

-ES

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