Hi Alexander, Thank you so much for your valuable reply.
yes, you are correct I have kernel-source in home directory and I did not install modules. To fix "out-of-tree" one, if I do make modules and modules_install will it go off? Thanks, Madhu On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Alexander Kapshuk < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Madhu K <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have built a kernel module against a 4.9.2 for arm board. while > inserting > > this kernel module I am getting below message which is high lighted in > red > > color what exactly mean loading out-of-tree module. what could be the > > possible reason to get this message? > > > > Please help me out to understand below message mean. > > > > ubuntu@ubuntu-armhf:/home/Madhu/i2c$ dmesg > > [ 704.283100] i2c_client: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. > > [ 704.285359] driver initialization > > [ 704.285693] inside probe function > > > > > > Regards, > > Madhu > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kernelnewbies mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > > > An 'out-of-tree' message does not indicate an error. It is informing > you that the module being loaded is not a part of the kernel source > tree, but an 'out-of-tree' one, i.e. your custom module whose source > code resides say in your home directory. > > To verify your module has been loaded successfully, run 'lsmod | grep > your_module_name' after loading it with 'insmod'. > > Hope this helps. >
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