Re: driver compile error

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Luke Shen wrote:

> But after I <su - root> and enter command <make> under the directory the
> "Makefile" is located, I got tons of compile errors. The first one is as
> follows:
>
> /usr/include/linux/timex.h:173:field 'time' has incomplete type
> In file included from /usr/include/linux/bitops.h:69
>                      from /usr/include/asm/system.h:7
>                      from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:16
>                      from at76c503.c:79
>
> I have browsed through the mailing list archives. There are some compile
> error reported. But none seem to be the same as mine. Answers to those
> questions do not help me either.
>
> The only thing I got from the mailing list posts is that the make file
> assume kernel header located at /lib/modules/'uname -r'/build. In my case,
> 'uname -r' returns "2.4.20-8". So /lib/modules/'uname -r'/build points to
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8. However, there is no such directory under /usr/src.
> There are only 2 directories under /usr/src: /usr/src/debug and
> /usr/src/redhat.

That's the problem, /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build _must_ point to the
linux kernel source root dir.

Where did you install the kernel source or kernel headers into?

/Jörg