On Feb 24, 2018 12:07 AM, Srishti Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 4:59 AM, Tobin C. Harding <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 02:42:23AM +0530, Srishti Sharma wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > While trying to load a module from the linux-next branch >> >> Do you mean from linux-next tree or from a branch called linux-next in >> some other tree? (Not that it matters that much :) >> >> >, I get the error >> > that the module format is invalid, this was because the kernel I compiled >> > was different from the kernel I was trying to load the module into, so I >> > installed the kernel from the same source as the module, and it booted for >> > only once right after the installation. When I try to boot into the same >> > kernel, my system reboots. What should I do so that I am able to boot into >> > it everytime ? >> >> What are you trying to achieve? Are you doing testing on linux-next or >> do you just want to use the module? If you just want to use the module >> you could build the module for the current running kernel instead of >> rebuilding the kernel. Copy the module someplace and write a new >> makefile same as you would if you were developing your own [test] >> modules. >> >> (For the record I happened to be trying to learn about linux-next myself >> this morning and built a kernel that just goes into a reboot loop >> without even getting to the grub menu. It boots in a VM though so now >> I'm playing with the cofig.) >> > Something was wrong with the configuration file, so I copied the > configuration of my running kernel and it boots now, but after running make, > the modules don't get generated, so there is something I am missing in the > configuration options again :(
Are they getting built? did you do make modules_install? > Regards, > Srishti > > >> >> Hope this helps, >> Tobin. > > Regards, Alex
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