Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262742AbVBYQxj (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:53:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262744AbVBYQxi (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:53:38 -0500 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:21434 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262742AbVBYQvm (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:51:42 -0500 Message-Id: <200502251649.j1PGnL5w006570@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> To: linux-os@analogic.com cc: Payasam Manohar , Linux kernel Subject: Re: Invalid module format in Fedora core2 In-Reply-To: Message from linux-os of "Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:53:44 CDT." X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.1; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 17) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:49:21 -0300 From: Horst von Brand X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0b2 (inti.inf.utfsm.cl [200.1.21.155]); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:49:21 -0300 (CLST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1581 Lines: 36 linux-os said: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Payasam Manohar wrote: > > I tried to insert a sample module into Fedora core 2 , But it is giving > > an error message that " no module in the object" > > The same module was inserted successfully into Redhat linux 9. > > Is there any changes from RH 9 to Fedora Core 2 with respect to the module > > writing and insertion. > Yes. Fedora Core 2 should have the new module tools. It also has > a new kernel. These new kernels load a module called "module.ko" > instead of "module.o". Right up to here. > Inside the new module is some code used > to obfuscate the new module mechanism where 'insmod' and friends > has been moved inside the kernel, further bloating the kernel AFAIR, the resulting code in-kernel is even smaller than before, and diong it in-kernel is the only sane way to avoid all kinds of nasty races. > and, incidentally, making it necessary for modules to be > "politically correct", i.e., policy moved into the kernel. Is this FUD really necesary? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/