kernel programming help in Ubuntu 8.04LTS

[vipin.balakrishnan]

Hi all,

I'm very new to kernel programming, Please anyone help me how to compile the program given in below. I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and kernel is 2.6.24-24-generic. Do I need to install any software to compile this program. Please give me step by step explanation for this. Please tell me any good IDE for kernel programming which will good as eclipse.


#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>

static int mymodule_init(void)
{
printk ("My module worked!\n");
return 0;
}

static void mymodule_exit(void)
{
printk ("Unloading my module.\n");
return;
}

module_init(mymodule_init);
module_exit(mymodule_exit);

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");