/lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc - shouldn't this be a directory?
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sun Jun 4 19:09:06 UTC 2006
Ben Lancaster writes:
> Hey,
>
> I can't seem to install the standalone imon_vfd drivers from http://
> venky.ws:
>
> # make install
> depmod
> /usr/bin/install imon_vfd.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
>
> Following that:
> # modprobe imon_vfd
> FATAL: Module imon_vfd not found.
>
> By my logic, shouldn't the install process have effectively copied
> the imon_vfd driver to a directory called misc within my running kernel?
Correct.
>
> Here's what stat says:
>
> It's an executable file! Is that right??
No.
The driver makefile is broken. It assumes that the misc subdirectory
already exists.
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