On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Boryeu Mao <[email protected]> wrote: > Summary of building cloop > > The build from the alioth source tar (thanks for the pointer Vladimir) > turns out to be rather straightforward, with only one minor hurdle > when the configuration script quit with an error message that 'the > zlib library is required'. I was stumped because rpm query showed > that the package zlib is installed in the system (livecd-iso-to-disk > from SL-65-x86_64-liveDVD.iso). After a bit of wild goose chase I > discovered serendipitously that the missing party was actually zlib.h > (in package zlib-devel). The build went on uneventfully afterwards, > for both the kernel module and the 3 utility programs. For modprobe > to find the module, I placed it in /lib/modules/`uname > -r`/kernel/misc/.
May I suggest that you put your module in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/ to make it distinct from the distro-supplied ones. Another suggestion is to consider making a kABI-tracking (kmod) package. This way, you would not have to rebuild for each kernel update. Akemi
