Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751751Ab1CKRDs (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:03:48 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:33451 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751072Ab1CKRDq (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:03:46 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:03:13 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Nikolai Kondrashov Cc: Matthew Garrett , Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Platform: add Samsung Laptop platform driver Message-ID: <20110311170313.GA10202@kroah.com> References: <20110225225055.GA5931@kroah.com> <4D787714.6060405@gmail.com> <20110310170143.GA24559@kroah.com> <20110310171940.GA24972@kroah.com> <4D790A20.3050105@gmail.com> <20110310180959.GA26927@kroah.com> <4D793D05.3070908@gmail.com> <20110310211519.GA11862@kroah.com> <4D79CB47.2030405@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D79CB47.2030405@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1695 Lines: 42 On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:12:07AM +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote: > On 03/10/2011 11:15 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >Are you sure the driver is loaded? > It doesn't load - it fails on inserting. > I should've probably reminded you that in my recent messages. > > >What happens if you do: > > rmmod samsung-laptop > > dmesg -c > > modprobe samsung-laptop debug=1 > > > >can you send me the output of 'dmesg' after doing the above as root? > Sure: > > nick@merry:~$ dmesg > nick@merry:~$ sudo modprobe samsung-laptop debug=1 > FATAL: Error inserting samsung_laptop (/lib/modules/2.6.37+/kernel/drivers/staging/samsung-laptop/samsung-laptop.ko): > No such device > nick@merry:~$ dmesg > [ 179.689516] samsung_laptop: module is from the staging directory, > the quality is unknown, you have been warned. > nick@merry:~$ sudo modprobe samsung-laptop debug=1 force=1 > FATAL: Error inserting samsung_laptop (/lib/modules/2.6.37+/kernel/drivers/staging/samsung-laptop/samsung-laptop.ko): > Invalid argument > nick@merry:~$ dmesg > [ 179.689516] samsung_laptop: module is from the staging directory, > the quality is unknown, you have been warned. > [ 190.474615] samsung_laptop: module is from the staging directory, > the quality is unknown, you have been warned. > [ 190.479681] This computer does not support SABI Are you sure this was the driver you just built that I sent you? Can you send the output of 'modinfo samsung-laptop'? thanks, greg k-h -- 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/