Re: Writing modules for 2.5

[Andi Kleen]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:00:45PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Andi Kleen <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> > > What magic needs to be done when writing modules for linux 2.5.x?
> > > Insmod tells me "Invalid module format" and the kernel log says "No
> > > module found in object".  I've tried to mimic the foo.mod.c stuff in
> > > the kernel tree, but I can't figure out the right way to do it.
> > 
> > Welcome to the wonderful new world of in kernel module loading, finally
> > with understandable error messages. Now bad error reporting is not limited
> > to netlink anymore.
> > 
> > You need -DKBUILD_BASENAME=name
> 
> Should I also add -DKBUILD_MODNAME=name?

Yes.

-Andi