kldload on arm

[Tim Kientzle]

On Aug 11, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Tom Everett wrote:

> Good afternoon mailing list.  I'm attempting to write my first driver.
> I've got a very basic driver which I am attempting to load.  The source
> code is here:
> 
> https://github.com/teverett/pi-iic
> 
> When I attempt to load the driver I get this:
> 
> root at lureen:/home/tom/pi-iic/pi-iic # make install
> install -o root -g wheel -m 555   bcm2835_iic.ko /boot/kernel
> kldxref /boot/kernel
> kldxref: Skipping /boot/kernel/kernel.gz.tramp: not dynamically-linked
> root at lureen:/home/tom/pi-iic/pi-iic # make load
> /sbin/kldload -v /home/tom/pi-iic/pi-iic/bcm2835_iic.ko
> kldload: can't load /home/tom/pi-iic/pi-iic/bcm2835_iic.ko: File exists
> *** Error code 1
> 
> 
> Does kldload work properly on arm?

Yes, it does.

"File exists" simply means that the kernel thinks
the driver is already loaded.

Tim