Trouble Installing Compiled Kernel

2020-03-25 Thread Nathanael J Grix
Hi, I recently decided to try and make contributions to the kernel. I normally just use windows as my operating system so I decided to set up Slackware to develop on. I thought a good place to start would to actually compile the kernel and install it before I actually make any changes. I ran:

Re: Trouble Installing Compiled Kernel

2020-03-25 Thread Marcelo Diop-Gonzalez
Hey, I think you want modules_install instead of install_module -Marcelo On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:23 PM Nathanael J Grix wrote: > > Hi, > I recently decided to try and make contributions to the kernel. I normally > just use windows as my operating system so I decided to set up Slackware to

Re: Trouble Installing Compiled Kernel

2020-03-25 Thread Nathanael J Grix
On Wednesday, March 25, 2020 12:38 PM, Valentin Vidić wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 04:22:47PM +, Nathanael J Grix wrote: > > > After getting it compiled I ran: > > bash-4.3$ sudo make O=/home/nathanael/KernelBuild/ install_module install > > This should be modules_install. > >

Re: Trouble Installing Compiled Kernel

2020-03-25 Thread Nathanael J Grix
On Wednesday, March 25, 2020 12:38 PM, Valentin Vidić wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 04:22:47PM +, Nathanael J Grix wrote: > > > After getting it compiled I ran: > > bash-4.3$ sudo make O=/home/nathanael/KernelBuild/ install_module install > > This should be modules_install. > >

Re: Trouble Installing Compiled Kernel

2020-03-25 Thread Valentin Vidić
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 04:22:47PM +, Nathanael J Grix wrote: > After getting it compiled I ran: > bash-4.3$ sudo make O=/home/nathanael/KernelBuild/ install_module install This should be modules_install. -- Valentin ___ Kernelnewbies mailing

Re: linux kernel coding style and checkpatch.pl script

2020-03-25 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:36:08 +0100, Tomek The Messenger said: > There is checkpatch.pl script To borrow from Pirates of the Carribean, "They're not exactly rules, they're more like... suggestions..." Checkpatch flags *possible* code style problems, but it's not perfect. There's often good

Re: Finding bugs/issues to work on

2020-03-25 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:49:29 +0530, Suraj Upadhyay said: > Hii newbies, > I just started studying for linux-kernel development although I am > not completely new to open source technologies. I wanted to clarify my > doubts in the following things > 1. Where can I find issues/tickets

linux kernel coding style and checkpatch.pl script

2020-03-25 Thread Tomek The Messenger
Hi There is checkpatch.pl script where You can check if You wrote code in your kernel module according to linux kernel style. However can I ignore warning message? WARNING: quoted string split across lines #974: FILE: fpgax67-core.c:974: + dev_err(>dev, "registration not done, driver

Re: linux kernel coding style and checkpatch.pl script

2020-03-25 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:36:08AM +0100, Tomek The Messenger wrote: > Hi > There is checkpatch.pl script where You can check if You wrote code in your > kernel module according to linux kernel style. > However can I ignore warning message? > WARNING: quoted string split across lines > #974: FILE: