Compiling ftape modules
Stephen Childress
schildre at bsn1.net
Tue Mar 1 03:56:28 UTC 2005
Dear Fedora List,
I posted a couple of weeks ago regarding my attempts to get ftape
working on Fedora Core 3, since it no longer comes as a pre-compiled kernel
module. The suggestion at that time was to follow the directions in the
release notes for compiling modules. I've finally gotten back to working on
this project. Actually I had stumbled on the release notes before I posted
but wasn't sure how to apply them to the task at hand. Here is the question
I have. Quoting from the release notes,
quote(( "For example, to build the foo.ko module, create the following file
(named Makefile) in the directory containing the foo.c file:
obj-m := foo.o
KDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
PWD := $(shell pwd)
default:
$(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
Issue the make command to build the foo.ko module." )) #end quote
Now, there are three modules that I need, ftape.ko, zftape.ko, and
zft-compressor.ko. The source files for these are in three directories
under the drivers tree: lowlevel, zftape, and compressor. Each directory
has several .c and .h files as well as a Makefile, but there is no file
named ftape.c, zftape.c, or zft_compressor.c. The object module is created
by linking several files together. So my question is, what do I substitute
for "foo.o" in the above makefile? My strategy is going to be 1) Copy all
.c and .h files to a temp directory. 2) Create Makefile as above. 3)
make. 4) Copy *.ko modules to appropriate directory in /lib/modules.
I would appreciate any help anyone can give, and perhaps it is apparent
that I need a little more handholding than someone who writes their own
makefiles before breakfast. I guess I'm also a little peeved that as a user
I have to go through this, since the floppy tape hardware used to be
well-supported under Red Hat and Fedora releases. Thanks in advance.
Stephen Childress
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