kernel module

[Luca]

Sorry my bad. It actual works compiling the module into the kernel and then
using module.param=value sintax.

Sorry again.

Thank you,
 Luca

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Luca <lucarx76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You are right. My module has been compiled into the kernel though.
> But when the kernel starts I do not see it registered.
>
> This is what I did
> 1)saved my module .c file in drivers/crypto/
> 2)edited drivers/kernel/Makefile adding obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_MYMODULE) +=
> mymodule.o
> 3)edited the drivers/crypto/Kconfig adding
>  config CRYPTO_MYMODULE
>  tristate "My module test"
>  help
>    Enable to test it
>
> 4)make menuconfig => setting my module to be built into the kernel
>
> Thank you,
>  Luca
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Luca wrote:
>>
>> > Thank you.
>> > I do not have the file /etc/modprobe.conf
>> >
>> > Besides, I  think what I want to do is little different, as I want
>> > to be able with grub to change the value assigned to mymodule's
>> > argument.
>> >
>> > Essentially, I have mymodule.ko. If i do insmod mymodule.ko
>> > param="valueOfParam" I can see everything works (looking at
>> > /proc/devices I can see mymodule has registered) and I can read
>> > param (the read function implemented in mymodule just returns the
>> > value of the string module argument param.
>> >
>> > What I would like to do now, is to use grub and do something like
>> > ttile Fedora
>> >      root (hd1,0)
>> >      kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9 ro root=/dev/....
>> mymodule.param="valueOfParam"
>> >      initrd /initrd-2.6.30.9
>> >
>> > Tried several things so far, but with no luck.
>>
>>   i'm pretty sure that you can only use that "mymodule.param" notation
>> on the kernel command line for modules that have been *compiled into*
>> the kernel, no?  that won't work for loadable modules, but i'm willing
>> to be corrected.
>>
>> rday
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