On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 4:59 AM, Tobin C. Harding <m...@tobin.cc> 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 :( Regards, Srishti > Hope this helps, > Tobin. >
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