[CentOS] CentOS4 and older megaraid - SOLVED

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 16:33 -0700, Ajay Sharma wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 23:47 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> >>On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 22:08 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> >>>On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 21:48 -0600, William wrote:
> >>>>If you're interested in what I have, here's an archive link to one of my 
> >>>>older posts on this very topic:
> >>>>http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-August/009501.html
> >>>
> >>>----
> >>>that sounds simple enough...I've got a CentOS 4 system that I'm updating
> >>>right now before I download the module source and compile it. Let's see
> >>>how far I get.
> >>----
> >>I'm sort of stuck where you are...
> >>
> >>anyone to toss a bone here on compiling kernel modules
> >>
> >>I'm following the release notes:
> >>Note
> >>An exploded source tree is not required to build kernel modules against
> >>the currently in-use kernel.
> >>
> >>For example, to build the foo.ko module, create the following file
> >>(named Makefile) in the directory containing the foo.c file:
> >>
> >>
> >>obj-m    := foo.o
> >>
> >>KDIR    := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
> >>PWD    := $(shell pwd)
> >>
> >>default:
> >>    $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
> >>
> >>so 
> >># ls -l
> >>total 204
> >>-rw-r--r--  1 root root    137 Aug 13 23:36 Makefile
> >>-rw-r--r--  1 root root    140 Aug 13 23:33 Makefile~
> >>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 118447 Jun 24 12:42 megaraid.c
> >>-rw-r--r--  1 root root  29506 Jun 24 12:42 megaraid.h
> >>-rw-r--r--  1 root root   2808 Jun 24 13:04 scsi.h
> >>-rw-r--r--  1 root root   4146 Jun 24 13:05 scsi_obsolete.h
> >>-rw-r--r--  1 root root    215 Jun 24 13:05 scsi_typedefs.h
> >>
> >># cat Makefile
> >>obj-m   := megaraid.o
> >>
> >>KDIR    := /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/build
> >>PWD     := $(shell pwd)
> >>
> >>default:
> >>        $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
> >>
> >>then running the following...I'm shooting blanks...
> >>
> >># make -w
> >>make: Entering directory `/usr/src/megaraid'
> >>make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/megaraid modules
> >>make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/build'
> >>make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'.  Stop.
> >>make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/build'
> >>make: *** [default] Error 2
> >>make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/megaraid'
> >>
> >>Anyone care to toss a bone my way?
> > 
> > ----
> > Solved
> > 
> > yum install kernel-devel didn't work because like a moron, I was in smp
> > kernel and so I needed to yum install kernel-smp-devel which then made
> > it all work but of course the boot cd is a uni-processor so I will have
> > to wait until I can reboot the production machine into a uni-processor
> > mode to compile a suitable module to test
> 
> 
> Please keep us posted on your progress.  I too am stuck at Centos 3 
> because of an old Megaraid controller.
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I'm this close '    '

snagged because loading module says I should be compiling for 586 (it's
dual Pentium 3 processors - has me befuddled - for the moment)

Ah - there's a 586 devel kernel  ;-)

Craig