need to initialize a member of a struct (error doing it)

["Cristina Rivera" <cris_apricot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there!

I have a problem with a shared strcture that is used either from the user 
and kernel side.

I need to initialize it from the kernel side, so, when I declare the struct 
and before doing EXPORT_SYMBOL I try to initialize a member of the structure 
and when I compile I'm getting an error that says "decodification error 
before "." "

I don't know if I'm not asigning correctly the value or if there's another 
problem, do you see anything wrong??

struct defintion: in a header file <bitmap.h>

struct bitmap_struct{
 struct task_struct *bitmaptask;

 unsigned long initial;
 unsigned long final;
 unsigned long length;
 int *init_kernel;
};

declaration in kernel side and asignation of a value to pid ( what's going 
wrong)
...done include <linux/bitmap.h>

struct bitmap_struct bitmapped;
bitmapped.bitmaptask->pid= -1;  -----> the compiling error is appearing here
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmapped);

Thanks in advance,

Cristina.

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