Re: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attrib

Sergey Kubushin wrote:
Robert Adsett <subscriptions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1167470530.933569.143970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, techie.embedded@xxxxxxxxx says...
Hi

I'm trying to compile an ADC Driver & come acrosss the following error.
I've no experience writing drivers before, and hence have no clue how
to fix it.
Hope someone out there has encountered the problem & suggesst a fix for
the same.

The Error is I get is :

qadc.c: At top level:
qadc.c:97: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
before 'qadc_read'
make: *** [qadc.o] Error 1
[root@localhost qadc]#
<snip>
/* Structure to declare our file access functions. */
struct file_operations qadc_fops =
{
open: qadc_open,
read: qadc_read,
write: qadc_write,
release: qadc_release
};

Well, the above isn't valid C so I'd start there.

It was some time back but now it's changed.

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The syntax was an extension in gcc to simplify Linux device drivers. If you are not using gcc the compiler doesn't recognize it. It has been years since I have written a Linux device driver so the construct could have changed an be no longer supported. (I know they made some changed in device drivers in the newer kernels.)
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