Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 May 2002 11:05:15 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Custom kernel version and depmod |
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On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:23:54PM +0200, Svein E. Seldal wrote: > > Hi, > > I have written a USB device driver for the Linux kernel. For convenience I > am going to distribute it binary (rpm) in addition to the source. For > flexibility I intended to distribute the module without enabling the kernel > module version. However, depmod complains about unresolved symbols if I do > so (insmod/modprobe works of course). Is there a method of avoiding these > complaints by depmod or must I compile the driver with the kernel module > enabled (i.e. depmod is made this way).
A bit off-topic, but any reason why you can not just submit your driver for inclusion in the main kernel tree? The USB developers are usually quite easy to convince to take new drivers :)
And what kind of USB device is your driver for?
thanks,
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