diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 8deb01c5..d86cd470 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 matrix:
     include:
-        - dist: trusty
         - dist: xenial
 
 language: rust
diff --git a/hello-world/src/lib.rs b/hello-world/src/lib.rs
index 2413fe0a..e56de246 100644
--- a/hello-world/src/lib.rs
+++ b/hello-world/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #![no_std]
-#![feature(alloc)]
+#![feature(alloc, const_str_as_bytes)]
 
 extern crate alloc;
 use alloc::borrow::ToOwned;
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ impl Drop for HelloWorldModule {
         println!("Goodbye kernel module!");
     }
 }
+
 kernel_module!(
     HelloWorldModule,
     author: "Alex Gaynor and Geoffrey Thomas",
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 3cba6a18..7e0383db 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ macro_rules! kernel_module {
         #[link_section = ".modinfo"]
         #[allow(non_upper_case_globals)]
         // TODO: Generate a name the same way the kernel's `__MODULE_INFO` does.
-        // TODO: This needs to be a `&'static [u8]`, since the kernel defines this as a
-        // `const char []`.
-        pub static $name: &'static str = concat!(stringify!($name), "=", $value);
+        // TODO: This needs to be a `[u8; _]`, since the kernel defines this as a  `const char []`.
+        // See https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2545
+        pub static $name: &'static [u8] = concat!(stringify!($name), "=", $value, '\0').as_bytes();
     };
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/printk/src/lib.rs b/tests/printk/src/lib.rs
index 3db1517a..dc0d8f4d 100644
--- a/tests/printk/src/lib.rs
+++ b/tests/printk/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #![no_std]
+#![feature(const_str_as_bytes)]
 
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate linux_kernel_module;
diff --git a/tests/sysctl/src/lib.rs b/tests/sysctl/src/lib.rs
index 45fbc871..84e9a052 100644
--- a/tests/sysctl/src/lib.rs
+++ b/tests/sysctl/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #![no_std]
+#![feature(const_str_as_bytes)]
 
 use core::sync::atomic::AtomicBool;
 
diff --git a/x86_64-linux-kernel-module.json b/x86_64-linux-kernel-module.json
index 93159324..fd5353af 100644
--- a/x86_64-linux-kernel-module.json
+++ b/x86_64-linux-kernel-module.json
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
   },
   "relocation-model": "static",
   "relro-level": "full",
+  "needs-plt": true,
   "target-c-int-width": "32",
   "target-endian": "little",
   "target-family": "unix",