FC 5 and kernel module problems

[Neil Cherry]

Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, now I have an answer and I guess I'll submit my patches
to the kernel folks. That'll be a first. :-)

-- 
Linux Home Automation         Neil Cherry       ncherry at linuxha.com
http://www.linuxha.com/                         Main site
http://linuxha.blogspot.com/                    My HA Blog
http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/               Backup site