Building Kernel Module

Submitted by rizzetti
on September 23, 2008 - 2:24pm

Hello,

I'm trying compile a external kernel module of a proprietary driver. The makefile build object files, but seems that where Building modules, stage 2 start the headers doesn't found. The output is something like that

....
LD [M] /Linux_PPC/EZpul_k26.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: "__kmalloc" [/Linux_PPC/EZpul_k26.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "strlen" [/Linux_PPC/EZpul_k26.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "sprintf" [/Linux_PPC/EZpul_k26.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "jiffies" [/Linux_PPC/EZpul_k26.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "memset" [/Linux_PPC/EZpul_k26.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "printk" [/Linux_PPC/EZpul_k26.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "schedule_timeout" [/Linux_PPC/EZpul_k26.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "vsnprintf" [/Linux_PPC/EZpul_k26.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "kfree" [/Linux_PPC/EZpul_k26.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "memcpy" [/Linux_PPC/EZpul_k26.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "memmove" [/Linux_PPC/EZpul_k26.ko] undefined!
CC /Linux_PPC/EZpul_k26.mod.o
/Linux_PPC/EZpul_k26.mod.c:8: error: variable '__this_module' has initializer but incomplete type
...

The main Make invocation is like
$(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) BASEDIR=$(BASEDIR) CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_6xx- ARCH=powerpc

EXTRA_CFLAGS has a Include dirs for proprietary source code
CFLAGS has include for kernel source ($(KDIR)/include)

Where previous Variables are correctly set.

I searched about this, but can't found nothing helpfull.

Some Tip ?

Thanks a lot.

Solved

rizzetti
on
December 16, 2008 - 10:00am

I solved this problem some time after the previous post, and for someone that have the same problem that I had, for future references, I will explain what happens.

This error is caused because the kernel modules support isn't enable, the solution is simple, just run:

make ARCH=YOUR_ARCH CROSS_COMPILE=YOUR_CROSSCOMPILE menuconfig

[*] Enable loadable module support
[*] Module unloading (not necessary, but very useful)

and recompile the kernel.

After that, the modules will compile fine.

Ahh, that was usefull!

Sebastain (not verified)
on
December 17, 2009 - 7:52am

Ahh, that was usefull!

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