On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:39:06AM -0700, Darren OConnor wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to implement the hello world code from the device > drivers chapter of "Beginning Linux Programming". I'm trying to create > a module that I can test with the insmod command. I keep getting errors > because I'm compiling using the wrong header: > > In file included from /usr/include/linux/module.h:10, > from hellokernel.c:3: > /usr/include/linux/config.h:5:2: #error Incorrectly using glibc headers > for a kernel module > > However, I've invoked the compiler as follows: > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -isystem/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build/include/linux - > DMODULE -Wall -O2 -c -o hellokernel.o hellokernel.c > > And I tried: > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build/include/linux - > DMODULE-Wall -O2 -c -o hellokernel.o hellokernel.c > > But, despite my providing what I think should be a directory in which to > search for *.h files (which I believe are the correct ones for my > system, a Fedora Core 3 install) for kernel compilations, I keep getting > the error above based on gcc including the wrong header file. > > Thanks in advance for any help! > -D Hi, just try to remove the last part of your include directory, i.e. -I/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build/include Usually, you include linux kernel headers like #include <linux/module.h> which already contains the "linux" part. HTH Claudio >
