Re: Device Drivers -- Error compiling

From: Rogerio Eduardo Oliveira (roedoliver_at_yahoo.com.br)
Date: 10/08/05

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    Maximillian,
    Look in your system if you have this headers: sched.h,
    module.h,jiffies.h, bitmap.h. If not, you should
    install them. Excuse me, but I dont known where you
    can find it.

    --- Maximillian Murphy <m@de-minimis.co.uk> escreveu:

    > Dear All,
    >
    > Purchased the "Linux Device Drivers" 2nd edition
    > book. First bit of
    > code: A hello world module. Won't compile on my
    > system. Instead it
    > comes back with a stream of errors complaining about
    > code in the
    > _main_linux_source_tree_ .. so there's evidently
    > something wrong with my
    > setup. Can anyone help me? First steps sometimes
    > being the hardest!
    > Also, do you know of any device driver or kernel
    > forums that specialise
    > in this kind of thing and don't mind being asked
    > dumb questions?
    >
    > Details of my setup and the errors I'm getting:
    >
    > gcc version: 3.3.5 (apt-get upgrade running as I
    > type to pull this up
    > to the latest version)
    >
    > kernel version: 2.6.6
    >
    > beginning of the error stream:
    >
    > In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:12,
    > from /usr/include/linux/module.h:10,
    > from hello_world_module.c:2:
    > /usr/include/linux/jiffies.h:16: error: parse error
    > before "jiffies_64"
    > /usr/include/linux/jiffies.h:20: error: parse error
    > before "get_jiffies_64"
    > In file included from
    > /usr/include/linux/cpumask.h:8,
    > from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:15,
    > from /usr/include/linux/module.h:10,
    > from hello_world_module.c:2:
    > /usr/include/linux/bitmap.h: In function
    > `bitmap_empty':
    > /usr/include/linux/bitmap.h:15: error:
    > `BITS_PER_LONG' undeclared (first
    > use in
    > this function)
    >
    >
    > and so on....
    >
    >
    > Any help appreciated.
    >
    > Regards, Max
    >
    >
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