Re: Invalid module format?

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 07:01 -0700, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> I have two device drivers for two separate PCI cards.
> 
> Using the 2.6.15.6 I can compile and insert both of these drivers.
> 
> I copy my sources to my 2.6.16.16 tree and recompile them.  One driver
> inserts just fine (and works) and the other gives me this:
> 
> FATAL: Error inserting ibb
> (/lib/modules/2.6.16.16/kernel/drivers/mvp/ibb.ko): Invalid module
> format
> 
> The same source file between both kernels and I get no errors at compile
> time.

you forgot to
1) look into dmesg and give us the information that gets printed there
   when modprobe returns this error
2) point to the source of the driver