From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: yh@bizmail.com.au
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6 config for module load
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 09:12:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060702091242.f2b9fd4b.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44A7B3C2.5030208@bizmail.com.au>
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 21:53:38 +1000 Jim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a device driver which can be configurated in kernel 2.4 to be a
> loadable module. But, in kernel 2.6, I made it as tristate in Kconfig.
> On make menuconfig list, I can only select it to [*]NewModule for kernel
> built-in, I cannot select it to [M]NewModule for loadable module
> (neither did I press key M or Space key produce [M]). Is it wrong to
> specify tristate in Kconfig to make a loadable module in kernel 2.6? Or
> what was I missing in kernel 2.6 config?
Tristate is OK. Of course, you will also need
CONFIG_MODULES=y
to enable module support. Is that enabled?
There are a few hundred examples of tristate loadable modules
in Kconfig files that you could look at.
---
~Randy
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2006-07-02 11:53 Jim
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