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. :-)
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