[OpenAFS-devel] Generating a Linux 2.6-style .ko

[chas williams (contractor)]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.60.0405271323320.22258@napoleon>,Asheesh Laroia writes:
>Kernel source: 2.6.6 from Debian (kernel-source-2.6.6)

2.6.6 has changed a few things.  try applying this to the afs sources
and see if you can load the .o into your kernel (normally this bit of
code is generated by a script in the kernel build tree.  if this changes
much it might be necessary to call that script).

.ko is just a name.

Index: src/afs/LINUX/osi_module.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/openafs/src/afs/LINUX/osi_module.c,v
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -u -r1.49 osi_module.c
--- src/afs/LINUX/osi_module.c	15 May 2004 06:43:12 -0000	1.49
+++ src/afs/LINUX/osi_module.c	20 May 2004 20:44:56 -0000
@@ -43,6 +43,20 @@
 
 MODULE_INFO(vermagic, VERMAGIC_STRING);
 
+struct module __this_module
+__attribute__((section(".gnu.linkonce.this_module"))) = {
+ .name = __stringify(KBUILD_MODNAME),
+ .init = init_module,
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD
+ .exit = cleanup_module,
+#endif
+};
+
+static const char __module_depends[]
+__attribute_used__
+__attribute__((section(".modinfo"))) =
+"depends=";
+
 #endif
 
 #ifdef AFS_SPARC64_LINUX24_ENV