* force insmod on 2.6
@ 2007-02-09 17:27 Leisner, Martin
2007-02-10 10:18 ` Rusty Russell
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From: Leisner, Martin @ 2007-02-09 17:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel; +Cc: leisner
I had modules which were compiled with another kernel version string
(same kernel though).
In 2.4, you could do a force in the modules.conf files or in the insmod
command line.
The current insmod doesn't have a force option.
Modprobe CAN force, but the modules has to be in the modules tree (i.e.
not arbitrary places on the
file system)
Is there a way to force load a module at an arbitrary location?
This is very handy for development (not production).
marty
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* Re: force insmod on 2.6
2007-02-09 17:27 force insmod on 2.6 Leisner, Martin
@ 2007-02-10 10:18 ` Rusty Russell
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From: Rusty Russell @ 2007-02-10 10:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leisner, Martin; +Cc: linux-kernel, leisner
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 12:27 -0500, Leisner, Martin wrote:
> I had modules which were compiled with another kernel version string
> (same kernel though).
>
> In 2.4, you could do a force in the modules.conf files or in the insmod
> command line.
>
> The current insmod doesn't have a force option.
>
> Modprobe CAN force, but the modules has to be in the modules tree (i.e.
> not arbitrary places on the
> file system)
>
> Is there a way to force load a module at an arbitrary location?
>
> This is very handy for development (not production).
Sure, you simply remove the information from the module, then the kernel
will load it. To strip modversions, remove the __versions section. To
strip the version magic, it's easiest to remove the entire .modinfo
section. You can use objcopy for this...
Hope that helps!
Rusty.
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