From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262327AbVCBO7v (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:59:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262324AbVCBO7v (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:59:51 -0500 Received: from web53306.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.39.235]:41375 "HELO web53306.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262327AbVCBO7O (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:59:14 -0500 Message-ID: <20050302145907.17666.qmail@web53306.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:59:07 +0000 (GMT) From: sounak chakraborty Subject: compilation problem of modules To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org the code of the module that i written is as follows: #define MODULE #include #include #define MODULE_NAME "manti" struct manti { char mm[20]; }; static struct proc_dir_entry *example_dir; struct manti m1; int init_module(void) { example_dir=proc_mkdir(MODULE_NAME,NULL); if(example_dir==NULL) { printk("<1> error in creation of proc file\n"); } else printk("<1>success in creation of proc dir\n"); } void cleanup_module(void) { remove_proc_entry(MODULE_NAME,NULL); printk("<1>proc entry removed\n"); } here iam just making one directory in the proc file named manti i am trying to compile it like gcc -c proc.c where the kernel version is 2.4.20-8 but i am getting following errors In file included from proc.c:5: /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:47: parse error before "off_t" /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:51: parse error before "off_t" /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:57: parse error before "mode_t" /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:59: parse error before "uid" /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:60: parse error before "gid" /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:70: parse error before "count" /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:72: parse error before "rdev" /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:176: parse error before "mode_t" /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h: In function `proc_net_create': /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:177: `NULL' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:177: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:177: for each function it appears in.) /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h: At top level: /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:181: parse error before "mode_t" /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h: In function `create_proc_entry': /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:181: `NULL' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h: In function `proc_symlink': /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:185: `NULL' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h: At top level: /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:186: parse error before "mode_t" /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h: In function `proc_mknod': /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:187: `NULL' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h: In function `proc_mkdir': /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:189: `NULL' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h: At top level: /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:192: parse error before "mode_t" /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:193: parse error before "off_t" /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:193: `create_proc_read_entry' declared as function returning a function /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:196: parse error before "mode_t" /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h: In function `create_proc_info_entry': /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:197: `NULL' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h: At top level: /usr/include/linux/proc_fs.h:203: `NULL' used prior to declaration proc.c: In function `init_module': proc.c:16: `NULL' has an incomplete type proc.c:17: invalid operands to binary == proc.c: In function `cleanup_module': proc.c:26: `NULL' has an incomplete type how to solve it plz help me is my compilation method is wrong or something else thanks sounak ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony/