On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Alex Arvelaez <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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? > After compilation I got .o files and not .ko , I used make . Regards, Srishti > > Regards, > > Srishti > > > > > >> > >> Hope this helps, > >> Tobin. > > > > > > Regards, > > Alex >
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