Re: [Kbde-general] kernel module? reccomended change

[Valery R. <val...@ya...>]

--- Jeff Sadowski <jef...@gm...> wrote:
Thanks, Jeff.
On which kernel did you face this problem ?

Valery


> Its been a while since I last used kbde.
> Recently I wanted to simulate a kernel panic as a
> joke
> 
> watch -n 1 "kbde -d 0 --key=CapsLock --key=NumLock;
> xset led 3;sleep
> 1;kbde -d 0 --key=CapsLock --key=NumLock; xset -led
> 3"
> 
> and realized that it wasn't doing what I thought.
> Then I remembered I needed to load a kernel module.
> I downloaded the source code and there was no kernel
> module in it to build.
> So I downloaded the cvs
> 
>  cvs
>
-d:pserver:ano...@kb...:/cvsroot/kbde
> login
>  cvs -z3
>
-d:pserver:ano...@kb...:/cvsroot/kbde
> co -P kbde
> 
> then I went into the driver section and attempted to
> build the module
> 
> /root/kbde/kbde-cvs/kbde/kbde-driver/driver/kbde.c:
> In function 'kbde_write':
>
/root/kbde/kbde-cvs/kbde/kbde-driver/driver/kbde.c:96:
> error: too many
> arguments to function 'serio_interrupt'
> make[4]: ***
> [/root/kbde/kbde-cvs/kbde/kbde-driver/driver/kbde.o]
> Error 1
> make[3]: ***
>
[_module_/root/kbde/kbde-cvs/kbde/kbde-driver/driver]
> Error 2
> make[2]: *** [kbde.ko] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 2
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 2
> 
> I did a quick google on [error: too many arguments
> to function
> 'serio_interrupt']
> something about the last argument being dropped so I
> did that in the source code
> 
> diff -Nu kbde-cvs/kbde/kbde-driver/driver/kbde.c
> kbde/kbde-driver/driver/kbde.c
> --- kbde-cvs/kbde/kbde-driver/driver/kbde.c    
> 2006-03-29
> 02:24:07.000000000 -0700
> +++ kbde/kbde-driver/driver/kbde.c      2007-04-19
> 13:21:58.000000000 -0600
> @@ -93,7 +93,8 @@
>                 get_user(scancode, (char*)buf++);
>                 //printk("SYMBOL = %x\n", (unsigned
> int)scancode);
> 
> -               serio_interrupt(kbde_port, scancode,
> 0, NULL);
> +               /*serio_interrupt(kbde_port,
> scancode, 0, NULL);*/
> +               serio_interrupt(kbde_port, scancode,
> 0);
>         }
>         return retval;
>  }
> 
> I compiled the kernel model and did "depmod -a"
> and realized I also had to deleted /dev/kbde and
> recreate it with
> "mknod /dev/kbde c 11 0"
> 
> This seemed a little complicated to me. I'm glad I
> knew what I was
> doing and had some experience with this in the past.
> 


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