Re: Writing modules for 2.5

[Andi Kleen]

[e-mail] (Måns Rullgård) 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

Also you need module_init/module_exit declarations.

-Andi