OpenSuse 11.1 kernel module recompilation

[harsszegi]

Hi,

I have a serious problem when recompiling
the USB drivers after changing one of them.
I've added EXPORT_SYMBOL(usb_kick_khubd)
to HUB.C within drivers/usb/core.

Then I did the following.
- cd /usr/src/linux
- cp /usr/src/linux-obj/$arch/$flavour/.config .
- cp /usr/src/linux-obj/$arch/$flavour/Module.symvers .
- make prepare
- make modules_prepare
- cd drivers/usb
- make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build M=$(pwd)
- make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build M=$(pwd) modules_install

Everything went fine, drivers are compiled
and installed into the PAE/extra folder
(I'm using the 2.6.27.7-9-pae kernel).

HOWEVER after boot I did a:

modinfo usbcore (as hub.c is within usbcore)

and it displayed that the .KO is loaded
NOT from the /extra folder but from the
regular kernel/drivers/usb/core.

So I have owerwritten the .KO there with the
fresh one. After yet another reboot
I did a:

cat /proc/kallsyms | grep usb_kick_khubd

and it returned only a "t" entry with
usb_kick_khubd, but NO corresponding __ksymtab, __kstrtab entries.

Naturally I cannot load any other .KOs
using "usb_kick_khubd" as I get "unknown symbol
in module" for sure.

I have tried manually updating all the Module.symvers files:

- lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.symbols
- lib/modules/$(uname -r)/Module.symvers
- lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/Module.symvers

But obviously no luck, I cannot change the
usb_kick_khubd to global.

Please help me. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,

p.s. Also would DIE for an official, proper,
up-to-date description of how to recompile
one, single kernel module without complete kernel recompilation.

[harsszegi]

Khm. Sorry. Lame me. Forgot that
usbcore is within initrd, thus I had to
do a "mkinitrd -s 1024x768" after compilation
so that the new usbcore.ko INDEED GETS into
the initrd and not the old one sits there.