From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mobile.parmenides@gmail.com (Parmenides)
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 23:12:10 +0800
Subject: How make modprobe find my kernel module?
Message-ID: <CAOXENUgZ+17oBjAY8DKwx3GDrz06_VVdru8-c4BXpsVR4ND06Q@mail.gmail.com>
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
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Hi,

    I have write a 'hello, world!' module which is in a directory
rather than the kernel source tree. I compiled it by:

                       make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=$PWD modules

and installed it by:

                       make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=$PWD modules_install

I find it was installed at /lib/modules/2.6.34/extra. Then, I invoked

                        modprobe hello.ko

to load this module, but get a message:

                        FATAL: Module hello.ko not found.

It seems that my module is not in the modprobe's search path. Is that
true? If so, how can I configure its search path?