Kernel Module Compilation error

Pranay Kr. Srivastava pranjas at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 12:32:44 EDT 2014



On April 15, 2014 3:26:14 AM GMT+05:30, Arun M Kumar <arunkr.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>     I get the following error while compiling my very basic kernel 
>Module (a hello world module)
>
>*
>//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
>make -C /home/arun/Dev/linux-stable M=/home/arun/Dev/practice/Kmodules 
>modules
>make[1]: Entering directory `/home/arun/Dev/linux-stable'
>
>WARNING: Symbol version dump /home/arun/Dev/linux-stable/Module.symvers
>         is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.
>
Your linux-stable is build right? If not try to build it first then compile your module.

>   CC [M]  /home/arun/Dev/practice/Kmodules/Hello_world.o
>/home/arun/Dev/practice/Kmodules/Hello_world.c:1:0: error: code model 
>'kernel' not supported in the 32 bit mode
>/home/arun/Dev/practice/Kmodules/Hello_world.c:1:0: sorry, 
>unimplemented: 64-bit mode not compiled in
>make[2]: *** [/home/arun/Dev/practice/Kmodules/Hello_world.o] Error 1
>make[1]: *** [_module_/home/arun/Dev/practice/Kmodules] Error 2
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/arun/Dev/linux-stable'
>make: *** [all] Error 2
>*//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
>
>what could be the possible cause of this error?
>
>on my system
>
>*$uname -a*
>
This is your running /installed kernel not the one you are building it against.

>returns the following..
>
>*Linux linux-xh55.site 3.4.6-2.10-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jul 26 
>09:36:26 UTC 2012 (641c197) i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux*
>
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