Re: Compilation Error: variable has intializer but incomplete type

[Marcus Alanen]

>i am trying to learn and write device driver on linux kernel 2.4 redhat
>  distribution 
>
>iam getting compilation errors for driver code.
>struct file_operations my_ops ={NULL,my_read,my_write,NULL,NULL,NULL
>NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,
>NULL };
>
>ERROR -> my_ops has intializer but incomplete type

This is not a good way to do it. See e.g. fs/pipe.c#read_fifo_fops
for an easier approach:

struct file_operations read_fifo_fops = {
        llseek:         no_llseek,
        read:           pipe_read,
        write:          bad_pipe_w,
        poll:           fifo_poll,
        ioctl:          pipe_ioctl,
        open:           pipe_read_open,
        release:        pipe_read_release,
};

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Marcus Alanen
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