On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:54:36PM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:

I am wondering if it is possible to just grab the specialix.c file and compile that one module (not the entire kernel) and of course load that module and have it work.

Is that possible?

Usually, yes.

But be wary of differences between the kernel versions (different signatures for internal functions: INIT_WORK, kmem_cache_x, etc.; or different types).

Regards, Luciano Rocha