Re: Driver porting problem

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Friday 18 April 2003 03:44 pm, Kenneth Goodwin wrote:

> Trying to port a Rainbow Cryptoswift PC-200 driver from a Kernel
> version somewhere
> around 6.x/7.X (2.2.14-5.0) to Redhat 8.0  (2.4.18-19.8.0) and getting
> massive
> error
> messages that are either being caused
> by missing files in the Rainbow distribution or changes to the driver
> interface
> between 2.2.14-5.0  and the 8.0 2.4.18-19.8.0 release.
>
> If you have kernel level expertise esp. with porting from version to
> version and recognize the symptoms below, I would appreciate your
> insight into the possible
> causes and solutions for the root cause of this issue. My gut feeling
> is that some
> critical include file is not being brought in because of a reorganized
> kernel.

>    gcc  -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -O -Wall -I/usr/src/linux/include
> 		-I./ROOT/SwiftAPI5.0.2/include -c cspci.c
>    In file included from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:23,
>                     from /usr/include/linux/capability.h:17,
>                     from /usr/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
>                     from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:9,
>                     from cspci.c:107:
>    /usr/include/linux/string.h:8:2: warning: #warning Using kernel
> header in userland!
>    In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:14,
>                     from cspci.c:107:
>    /usr/include/linux/timex.h:173: field `time' has incomplete type

You need to fix the Makefile at the very least (to use a sane include 
directory). I honestly didn't look much deeper than that into the errors, 
and probably couldn't help with them anyway. :)

Modules should never include /usr/src/linux/include and should instead 
use /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include. The first is the glibc headers, 
while the latter is the kernel headers.

That may not solve all the problems, I don't have the source to try 
building it myself. It should get you started though.

- -- 
- -Michael

pgp key:  http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/
- --
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE+oHM6n/07WoAb/SsRAgpcAKCwNgIxp9lTwdphiTLa7ZzZZ4lonQCgpMI2
T+gqQJ+hJs0XnUhNpKOKw4I=
=Iz7f
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----



-- 
Psyche-list mailing list
Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

[Index of Archives]     [Fedora General Discussion]     [Red Hat General Discussion]     [Centos]     [Kernel]     [Red Hat Install]     [Red Hat Watch]     [Red Hat Development]     [Red Hat 9]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]

  Powered by Linux