On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 12:27 -0500, Leisner, Martin wrote: > I had modules which were compiled with another kernel version string > (same kernel though). > > In 2.4, you could do a force in the modules.conf files or in the insmod > command line. > > The current insmod doesn't have a force option. > > Modprobe CAN force, but the modules has to be in the modules tree (i.e. > not arbitrary places on the > file system) > > Is there a way to force load a module at an arbitrary location? > > This is very handy for development (not production).
Sure, you simply remove the information from the module, then the kernel will load it. To strip modversions, remove the __versions section. To strip the version magic, it's easiest to remove the entire .modinfo section. You can use objcopy for this... Hope that helps! Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
