Subject: Re: Redefinition error while compiling LKM
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "pretorious ." <pretorious_i@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:02:09 +0100
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On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:21 +0530, pretorious . wrote:
> hi!
>    I am facing problem in compiling an LKM. It seems Inclusion of 
> <sys/stat.h> conflicts with definitions in time.h.
> 
> 
> My linux kernal version is 2.4.21-4.EL
> 
> 
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> 
> #if CONFIG_MODVERSIONS==1
> #define MODVERSIONS
> #include <linux/modversions.h>
> #endif

this is broken btw
> 
> #ifndef KERNEL_VERSION
> #define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) ((a)*65536+(b)*256+(c))
> #endif
> 
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <asm/uaccess.h>
> #include <sys/syscall.h>
> 
> #include <sys/stat.h>


you cannot use glibc headers in kernel modules. anything in sys/ is a
glibc header.

and.. why on earth would you need sys/syscall.h ?? (or sys/stat.h for
that matter)


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