Re: kernel version of module editable where

[Pat LaVarre <p_lavarre@yahoo.com>]

> From: Artemio <artemio()artemio!net>
> From: Ken Moffat <ken()kenmoffat!uklinux!net>

Solved per your cogent hints, thank you.

For example, I have turned on the ( USB support -->
USB Mass Storage verbose ) in Knoppix 3.2 booted from
CD, without reburning the CD.

I now think I was lost in disentangling Two
interacting bonehead newbie errors:

// 1 of 2

I think I saw the complaint "couldn't find the kernel
version the module was compiled for" from `modprobe`
only when the `strings` of my .o lacked a
"kernel_version".

To get a kernel_version in my .o, I choose m rather
than y in my `make config`.  (-: I wonder, did that
hurt to read as much as it hurt to write. :-)

// 2 of 2

I think I saw no "couldn't find" complaint when my
KERNELRELEASE was wrong, instead I saw only:
insmod ... failed
insmod usb-storage failed

Of course `grep -r 2.4.20 .` by definition does not
find the head of the ./Makefile for me, which I needed
to change to say:

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 4
SUBLEVEL = 20
EXTRAVERSION = -xfs
KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)

> > I think I saw

I'll write again if I fail to reproduce my "I think I
saw"s.

Pat LaVarre p.lavarre@ieee.org
http://members.aol.com/plscsi/tools/knoppix.html


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