FC 5 and kernel module problems

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 03:39:50PM -0400, Neil Cherry wrote:
 > I'm starting to see a lot of problems with kernel modules and
 > gcc 4.1.0-3. I'm running 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 and I have several
 > kernel modules that I need to add (some part of the kernel and
 > some not). An example is a Moxa 8 port serial card (mxser.ko).
 > If I try to load it I get:
 > 
 > mxser: falsely claims to have parameter verbose
 > 
 > If I look at the source code verbose is defined. In fact to get
 > the module to behave I have to add to one of the functions
 > (usually I add it to the init function) something like this:
 > 
 > if(verbose != 0 || verbose != 1) {
 >   verbose = 0;
 > }
 > 
 > Note that I haven't add a declaration but that takes care of the
 > gcc optimization from removing the verbose variable.
 > 
 > Anyone have an idea what's going on?

convert the modules to use the 'new' module interface
(module_param and friends instead of MODULE_PARM) and this
problem goes away.

		Dave

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