Are you sure it's not complaining about modutils?
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It seems I can't make the module without the
Guys/Gals,
I've been trying to work out why my driver won't work correctly in redhat8
but works fine using the 2.4.18 kernel from kernel.org.
I have, however, come across this:-
in the kernel.org kernel, my driver sees HZ as 100. When compiled against
the the redhat kernel, HZ is 512.
Does
In case anyone was interested, I've solved my problem. It's only taken me
two weeks...
It turns out that the value of HZ (clock ticks per second) in the Redhat 8
kernels is 512, whilst it's 100 in the official kernel.org kernels.
This change caused a rounding down error in my calculations that
You need to add the macro call MODULE_LICENSE(GPL) to your code.
look in linux/include/linux/module.h for other parameters
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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:40:26 +0530
From: Prasanta Sadhukhan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: GPL license
Considering that I'm still having difficulties running my driver correctly
under Redhat 8.0 (any updated kernel, as opposed to 7.3, or the 2.4.18
kernel in kernel.org), I would call it oddball.
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Message: 12
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:07:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Mansour [EMAIL
Thanks for the reply, Steven
Yes, I am compiling the drivers using gcc3.2. I had assumed that the stock
kernel was compiled using the tools supplied in the distribution
installation.
I've tried downloading and using both the 2.4.18-24 and 2.4.18-26 kernels
and source from my local mirror.
colours.
Has anyone heard about any problems similar to this, with proprietry drivers
having running problems between the two versions of kernel?
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