Missing __versions section on .ko

Pritam Bankar pritambankar1988 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 10:10:41 EDT 2012


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Pritam Bankar
<pritambankar1988 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Any idea what causes __versions section to get added in *.ko module. A
> simple hello.ko on ubuntu 12.04 i386 machine gets loaded successfully.
> Other module just doesn't get loaded giving error " Invalid module ".
> When I compared both modules with objdump -h I found __versions
> section was missing from second module and that can be the reason its
> not getting loaded. How can I add this section to other .ko ? What
> causes __versions to get added in ko ?


I have compiled both modules with modpost and Module.symvers.


 Thanks,
 Pritam Bankar

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Pritam Bankar



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