Re: your mail

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Thu, 18 Nov 1999 03:44:40 +0100

On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:20:35AM +0200, Reine Gill wrote:
>
> Im trying to upgrade a driver from kernel 2.0 to 2.2, i have done so before
> without problems, after changing all that i usually change i get this:
>
> gcc -Wall -O2 -DMODULE -D_KERNEL__ -DLINUX -c tmnp_head_3.2.c -o tm.o

your compile line there is wrong. -D__KERNEL__ is used by the kernel
Makefile. You're also missing a -I/path/to/linux/include/linux/.
The kernel makefiles also turn on other -f options, depending on architecture
and C compiler, though these won't be relevant to the trouble you're seeing.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson


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