From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LfPr6-0007ee-Iy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:32:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEBB7E044E; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:32:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.150]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE3EE044E for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:32:06 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAHcZsEnLzjSt/2dsb2JhbADXaoQIBg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,311,1233500400"; d="scan'208";a="321169179" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([203.206.52.173]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 06 Mar 2009 11:32:01 +0900 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC483161FA8A for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:32:01 +0900 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6spbKaxi1Syy for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:31:58 +0900 (WST) Received: from [192.168.50.73] (unknown [192.168.50.73]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0506161FB57 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:31:58 +0900 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Making changes to a statically build driver From: "W.Kenworthy" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1236306536.8451.2.camel@bunyip.localdomain> References: <543f3b9c0903051817lb850d5fo3cda2efb94490c69@mail.gmail.com> <1236306536.8451.2.camel@bunyip.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home in Perth, Western Australia Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:31:55 +0900 Message-Id: <1236306715.8451.3.camel@bunyip.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 54c288df-833b-453b-820e-90233b0568ce X-Archives-Hash: d3969a8e3853a041bc47b07f90c2eac0 I missed the bit where you said it was staic in the kernel - that besides, make it print something during load. Billk On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 11:28 +0900, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Set something that will show on the modinfo command? > > I dont have e1000, but this a coda.ko example > > bunyip ~ # modinfo coda > filename: /lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo-r4/kernel/fs/coda/coda.ko > version: 6.6 > license: GPL > alias: char-major-67-* > description: Coda Distributed File System VFS interface > author: Jan Harkes, Peter J. Braam > srcversion: 88DB5609F61269AF835BA05 > depends: > vermagic: 2.6.27-gentoo-r4 preempt mod_unload modversions > PENTIUMM > bunyip ~ # > > Billk > > > > > On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 23:17 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: > > Never made such thing, so just a guess: maybe a log entry on some > > event, like link up - at that time, probably, the log engine is > > already up and running. > > > > Francisco > > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Ezra Taylor wrote: > > > Hello all: > > > I made some changes to the e1000 kernel driver. I then > > > recompiled the kernel without any issue. How can I tell if the change > > > actually went through? Again, this driver has been statically built into > > > the kernel. Is there a way to test that a change went through without have > > > to setup a test environment? > > > > > > -- > > > Ezra Taylor > > > > > > > > > > >