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On Feb 24, 2018 12:07 AM, Srishti Sharma <srishtishar@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 4:59 AM, Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> wrote:<br>
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>> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 02:42:23AM +0530, Srishti Sharma wrote:<br>
>> > Hello,<br>
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>> > While trying to load a module from the linux-next branch<br>
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>> Do you mean from linux-next tree or from a branch called linux-next in<br>
>> some other tree? (Not that it matters that much :)<br>
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>> >, I get the error<br>
>> > that the module format is invalid, this was because the kernel I compiled<br>
>> > was different from the kernel I was trying to load the module into, so I<br>
>> > installed the kernel from the same source as the module, and it booted for<br>
>> > only once right after the installation. When I try to boot into the same<br>
>> > kernel, my system reboots. What should I do so that I am able to boot into<br>
>> > it everytime ?<br>
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>> What are you trying to achieve? Are you doing testing on linux-next or<br>
>> do you just want to use the module? If you just want to use the module<br>
>> you could build the module for the current running kernel instead of<br>
>> rebuilding the kernel. Copy the module someplace and write a new<br>
>> makefile same as you would if you were developing your own [test]<br>
>> modules.<br>
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>> (For the record I happened to be trying to learn about linux-next myself<br>
>> this morning and built a kernel that just goes into a reboot loop<br>
>> without even getting to the grub menu. It boots in a VM though so now<br>
>> I'm playing with the cofig.)<br>
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> Something was wrong with the configuration file, so I copied the configuration of my running kernel and it boots now, but after running make, the modules don't get generated, so there is something I am missing in the configuration options again :(</p>
<p dir="ltr">Are they getting built? did you do make modules_install?</p>
<p dir="ltr">> Regards,<br>
> Srishti <br>
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>> Hope this helps,<br>
>> Tobin.<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Regards,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Alex</p>
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