From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f52.google.com ([209.85.161.52]:40089 "EHLO mail-fx0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750740Ab1GOEHP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:07:15 -0400 Received: by fxd18 with SMTP id 18so2110712fxd.11 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:07:14 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Dave Fine Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:06:54 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Problem building gspca module To: linux-media Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I'm trying to build the gspca module and insmod into my current running system. I can compile the module, but can't insmod it. steps I take to build: $ cd /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.38 $ sudo cp /boot/config-2.6.38-8-generic .config $ sudo make oldconfig $ sudo make prepare $ sudo make modules_prepare $ sudo make scripts $ sudo make SUBDIRS=drivers/media/video/gspca $ cd drivers/media/video/gspca $ sudo insmod gspca_main.ko $ insmod: error inserting 'gspca_main.ko': -1 Invalid module format $ dmesg | tail [995219.523934] gspca_main: no symbol version for module_layout when compiling the module, I get the following warning, which I feel is related to problem of not being able to insmod it, but don't know how to fix it:   WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.38/Module.symvers            is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Dave