Linux driver binary distribution and kernel versioning

From: Bill Halchin (bill.halchin_at_osatechnologies.com)
Date: 07/22/03 

Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:14:07 GMT

Hello,

      I have written a Linux driver and have read and reread the sections on
modules and versioning in Alessandro Rubini's "Linux Driver Writing" (2nd
edition). I ran into a situation where the kernel that was installed was an
SMP kernel (because the hardware was dual processor). However, the config.h
that was installed when the SuSE kernel source that was installed had SMP
set as no, i.e. a uniprocessor. So the driver was built for a UP system. I
obviously had problems (a hang) when I tried to "insmod -f" the driver. It
seems the only recourse in this situation is to at least run "make config"
to get config.h synced up with the kernel that is installed. OR have I
missed something?

Regards, Bill Halchin

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