On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi... > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 00:28, Balachandar <bala1486@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Thank you for your help. I figured out the mistake. I missed a >> semicolon in one of the header file that was included in the file that >> showed the error. > > I think it would be great if you and some guys here write about > "mistakes I ever did when I write kernel codes" in kernelnewbies > wiki....so that others might learn about it. > > Just 2 cents suggestion... > > -- > regards, > > Mulyadi Santosa > Freelance Linux trainer and consultant Hi Mulyadi, Youre a regular here, and would have some "authority" on making recommendations. The trouble I have with "edit the wiki" suggestions is that people get intimidated by questions of "where to put stuff ?". I just looked at HelpforBeginners http://kernelnewbies.org/HelpForBeginners and encountered this: You are encouraged to edit the WikiSandBox whichever way you like. Please restrain yourself from editing other pages until you feel at home with the ways a wiki works. The unintended message I got from this is "dont touch the other stuff", which doesnt set the bar low enough to encourage contributions - it implies that "judges" might not like your content or its placement. my $.02 - perhaps we need a CatchAll bucket for content that could be useful, but contributor doesnt know where to put it. Organization could come afterwards. You cant sort a deck of cards until youve got the cards, and once you do, its trivial to determine that the 10-of-Spades is missing. The bit Id add, in response to the now solved problem, would be: Try making the *.i file to trace down whats missing (or not missing) make -C /home/jimc/lx/linux-2.6.git O=/home/jimc/lx/sk/. drivers/hwmon/pc87360.i Using /home/jimc/lx/linux-2.6.git as source for kernel .... CPP [M] drivers/hwmon/pc87360.i wrt Victor's post, my impression was that the real error was not spaces/tabs but lack of linkage to the src tree... $> make O=../<mybuilddir> defconfig will write a new Makefile into the build dir, so you can make further from there, ie copy in an old .config, then make oldconfig to update it per latest source. [jimc@harpo sk]$ make make -C /home/jimc/lx/linux-2.6.git O=/home/jimc/lx/sk/. Using /home/jimc/lx/linux-2.6.git as source for kernel GEN /home/jimc/lx/sk/Makefile CHK include/linux/version.h His hint is useful and valuable in the right place, but I dont know where that is at this point, and I suspect many potential contributors would appreciate more specific guidance, or a default place that can be organized once it gets some content. thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
