Hey,

I have a problem I have been unable to locate any information on. I have 2 different partitions on my drive and I use LILO to boot into either one. One partition has the default redhat 2.4.18-3 kernel. The other has a kernel I compiled myself which is also 2.4.18 but I have removed many modules and reduced the size of the OS.

I have a module that is compiled seperately from the kernel that I want to use on both partitions. Do I need to recompile while running each kernel or do anything special like run depmod twice? Or will the module work on either because it is the same linux version?

Currently I force the module to load since when I compile the version is 2.4.18-SPECIAL. I notice that sometimes I have flawless execution and other times I have a crash. Anyone who can give me any pointers about any bonehead things I'm doing, please do it. If compiling the same version of linux with diferent options is considered a separate OS, then what other steps do I need to take?

Thanks,
Yayameen

Install the module in both kernel's, the run depmod -a for both of then.

Hope that helps ...

I recompiled for my target kernel and then recompiled the driver and got a driver of a very different size that worked on that target. It seems that recompiling the kernel with different options actually MAY change the kernel enough as to be incompatible with some drivers. I've done recompilations since then that haven't changed the driver size at all, but now I always compile just to be sure