On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Pritam Bankar <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Pritam Bankar > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Any idea what causes __versions section to get added in *.ko module. A > > simple hello.ko on ubuntu 12.04 i386 machine gets loaded successfully. > > Other module just doesn't get loaded giving error " Invalid module ". > > When I compared both modules with objdump -h I found __versions > > section was missing from second module and that can be the reason its > > not getting loaded. How can I add this section to other .ko ? What > > causes __versions to get added in ko ? > > > I have compiled both modules with modpost and Module.symvers. > > > The real reason why kernel prevent the module outside to insmod is ABI, Application binary interface, which is referred in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_binary_interface. If you do want to bypass it without rebuilding kernel ,you can do like this. http://hi.baidu.com/wzt85/item/dcea082c90c9ed0942634ad2 :)
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