On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:16:23PM -0500, Ravindra G C wrote: > The error message I get is "dereferencing pointer to incomplete > type" That is usually a sign that you didn't include the proper header files, or are trying to compile a module in an incorrect way (i.e.: without -Wall -O2 -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/path/to/kernel/include). > hello Mouw, do I really need to configure the device? I just want > to read what's there in the configuration space of the device.I think > the bios must have taken care of allocating irq etc .Infact my > 'lspci' lists that device Depends on the BIOS. The BIOS in my laptop only configures the PCI devices needed to boot the system (IDE controller and VGA), all other stuff is configured by the kernel. Besides, even if the BIOS configured some devices, the kernel may still decide to override that choice. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
