Driver compilation after Kernel update [SOLVED]

Do I have to compile drivers again each time the kernel gets updated? It's just a bit annoying, was wondering if that was really necessary?
Last edited by Jindur (2012-09-05 15:13:44)

Jindur wrote:
Lol hadrons123, that must've been the most stinking nerd posting I've encountered in quite some time really^^ Now go out the basement for a change. I can already begin to imagine what your tone of voice must sound like when you "teach" someone irl how to ask questions..
And to be more specific: Obviously I meant if I compile a driver myself, and then the kernel gets updated, it seems I have to compile it again. Also, this is in the newbie forum for a reason.
Linux is a monolithic kernel. All needed drivers/features are supposed to be compiled into the main kernel. However, this is infeasible due to the wide variety of hardware. Therefore, some parts of of the kernel are compiled out into modules that can be loaded into the kernel at run-time. These modules need to be recompiled every time the kernel is as they are really a part of the kernel and the kernel doesn't have a stable binary API.

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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57084&p=177
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krychle wrote:
Hi,
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But I don't know what to do really and couldn't found anything on that.
thanks

sorry, found something now in another thread here. this fix works just fyi:
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Last edited by gauthma (2010-09-28 21:53:04)

gauthma wrote:
Thank you for the feedback.
ngoonee wrote:Of course, if you're using nvidia-beta or some other AUR nvidia driver, you need to reinstall it.
Running the risk of asking what might be obvious to some, why?
The driver speaks to the kernel. When the kernel updates, the language used might have changed in various ways. Since nvidia is closed-source, its not always obvious whether what has changed affects it. The same applies to xorg-server, when it updates you should recompile your nvidia driver. Its SOMETIMES not needed, but when it is, would you rather be solving it from the tty?
quathma wrote:
ngoonee wrote:That's what the wiki is referring to. Even if the kernel major version has not updated (for example 2.6.35.5 to 2.6.35.6 is only a minor version bump) the driver may need to be recompiled. Safer to just do it everytime and restart the machine.
Now I'm confused. Are you saying that the safest approach is to recompile and (re)install the nvidia module after each kernel update? And does this only apply to modules from beta & AUR, or [extra] as well? And shouldn't all this issue of recompiling modules also apply to every other module installed in the system?
Yes that's the safest approach. [extra] is taken care of by the devs, the simple way is to assume they'll bump it if needed (and you don't need to do anything).
The same thing applies to almost any kernel module (AFAIK). It applies to virtualbox's modules, for sure, as well as phc-intel (the only other 2 external modules I use). Most kernel modules are actually compiled in to the kernel26 package anyway, so its not very many. I just automatically recompile the ones I use whenever I notice a kernel/xorg update.

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4. I have tried upgrading the BIOS but the distribution from acer is a windows executable (won't run under freeDOS) and I do not have windows installed on this PC (not game to try under wine).
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I'm now totally stumped :-/
I'd like to update my bios and go with the latest kernel but can't see a way without installing windows.
This might be fixed in an ubuntu kernel release (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/453700) but I'd prefer not to do that switch... perhaps the same fix is coming to arch?
I'd accept having to pin the kernel to an earlier version but neet to get the wireless working.
help...
edit:
I've now managed to get the kernel backdated correctly (so that wireless works as well as the fan) by re-installing the kernel and firmware together.
Have configured pacman to igmore future kernel updates
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Last edited by drandre (2009-11-06 13:26:46)

Hi,
Got exactly the same issue, after running for a while laptop justs goes off... going to try to regress kernel until issue is resolved
BIOS update does sound a bit extreme
MrG

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No sound after (kernel)update 64bit

Hey I just rebooted my PC the first time after the new kernel update.
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Black Mage wrote:I filled a bug report:
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happened to me two..
Thanks! But actually rebuilding the kernel did not fix anything (for me) - at least not rebuilding kernel26-2.6.27.10-1 or kernel26-2.6.27.9-1. Sound only works after a downgrade to kernel26-2.6.27.8-1 (or below I suppose).
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Mounting issues after kernel update (2.6.25)

After installing the recent kernel update, mounting has gone haywire. When I put in a cd (in either of my 2 drives) it doesn't mount. In thunar, when I click on the cd drive, it displays this error:
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In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so.
I did dmesg | tail and I got this:
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 1044216k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1044216k
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0
UDF-fs: No VRS found
Also, when booting a few minutes ago, it was stuck on the "checking filesystems" for a few minutes, when it usually does that step almost immediately. I also couldn't mount an iso, this is what happened:
[root@eric-arch eric]# mount -o loop -t iso9660 /path/to/iso.iso /mnt/iso2
mount: could not find any device /dev/loop#
Note: I am not certain that it was caused by the kernel update, but that is the only thing I did to my machine before this started happening.
Please help asap because I need to do schoolwork which is on a cd.

jealma wrote:I know the solution to the /dev/loop-problem. The new 2.6.25 kernel has the loop device as a module. Please try a `modprobe loop`, that gives you a /dev/loop. I don't know whether that will be persistent after a reboot, so you may need to add "loop" to the modules-list in /etc/rc.conf.
That worked, but I still have other issues with cd mounting, so I downgraded my kernel for now.

Wireless issues after kernel update

Hi,
after I updated my kernel yesterday, I've been having some issues with my wireless. I'm on a dell inspiron 1545, using kde and I use the broadcom-wl driver form the AUR.
Anyways. After I did a system update yesterday, it would refuse to load the wl module. So I recompiled the driver and that was fine. But still my laptop refuses to use its wireless card. At first I just couldn't connect to any wireless, now the networkmanager just claims that my WLAN Interface is unavailable.
the output of iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:off
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
eth1 no wireless extensions.
but if I try to run 'iwlist eth0 scan' it states:
eth0 Failed to read scan data : Invalid argument
I'm not that experienced with wireless, so I did what https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM43XX says and some other pages I found on google. 'iwconfig eth0 up' doesn't have any influence.
As I said, before the upgrade it worked fine and I also had configured it as it is described in the link above.
thanks for any inputs,
tobi

litemotiv: 'lspci | grep Network' :
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
.:B:. : I guess (and hope) that's the only relevant part (at the top and bottom):
at the bottom what's that "wl taints kernel"
lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input1
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: PCI INT C -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: setting latency timer to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: debug port 1
lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: cache line size of 64 is not supported
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: irq 22, io mem 0xfed1c400
iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.06
iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH9M TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x1060)
iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
dcdbas dcdbas: Dell Systems Management Base Driver (version 5.6.0-3.2)
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: setting latency timer to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: cache line size of 64 is not supported
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 20, io mem 0xfed1c000
uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input2
ACPI: acpi_idle registered with cpuidle
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input3
ACPI: Power Button [PBTN]
input: Sleep Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0E:00/input/input4
ACPI: Sleep Button [SBTN]
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (off-line)
Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-1 state
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: PCI INT B -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: setting latency timer to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: irq 20, io base 0x00006f60
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: setting latency timer to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-2 state
Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle
Switching to clocksource hpet
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: irq 21, io base 0x00006f80
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.2: PCI INT C -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.2: setting latency timer to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
wmi: Mapper loaded
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.2: irq 22, io base 0x00006fa0
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: setting latency timer to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 20, io base 0x00006f00
hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 6-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: setting latency timer to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 7
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 21, io base 0x00006f20
hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 7-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: PCI INT C -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: setting latency timer to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 8
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 22, io base 0x00006f40
hub 8-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 8-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
wl: module license 'Mixed/Proprietary' taints kernel.
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
wl 0000:0c:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
wl 0000:0c:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x8d on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e00d <keycode>' to make it known.
eth0: Broadcom BCM4315 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 5.100.82.38
thermal LNXTHERM:00: registered as thermal_zone0
and maybe
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
start_kdeinit (3367): /proc/3367/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/3367/oom_score_adj instead.
sky2 0000:09:00.0: eth1: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control rx
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
tobi

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