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 Craig