Marc Simard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Could you please help me solve this problem.
Easy: FRAPE 4.02 does not work with kernel 2.2.5. You need the "unstable" version from
URL:
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/development.html
You should also pick up the ftape-tools from there.
> Compiling FTAPE 4.02 bombs because of an erroneous struct definition I think. I am
>compiling ftape as a module. I inserted the ftape dir in place of the one included
>with my kernel, did a make dep, etc. compiling a new kernel. Things bombed when I
>tried making the ftape module via a make modules call. GCC is version 2.7.2.3-14 on
>RedHat 6.0 kernel 2.2.5-15. Follows is the output generated by GCC when it fails.
>
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.5/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
>-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -DCPU=486 -DMODULE
>-DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.2.5/include/linux/modversions.h -c -o
>fdc-io.o fdc-io.c
> fdc-io.c: In function `fdc_interrupt_wait':
> fdc-io.c:433: structure has no member named `timeout'
> fdc-io.c:454: structure has no member named `timeout'
> make[4]: *** [fdc-io.o] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.5/drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel'
> make[3]: *** [_modsubdir_lowlevel] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.5/drivers/char/ftape'
> make[2]: *** [_modsubdir_ftape] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.5/drivers/char'
> make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_char] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.5/drivers'
> make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
>
> This is the code segment(in ftape/lowlevel/fdc-io.c) where compiler points to(in
>function fdc_interrupt_wait) :
> <snip>
> int fdc_interrupt_wait(fdc_info_t *fdc, unsigned int time)
> {
> struct wait_queue wait = {current, NULL};
> TRACE_FUN(ft_t_fdc_dma);
>
> if (fdc->irq_level > 1) {
> TRACE(ft_t_warn,
> "Geeh! Calling "__FUNCTION__"() with irq's off %d",
> fdc->irq_level);
> }
> if (fdc->irq_level < 1) {
> TRACE(ft_t_warn,
> "Geeh! Calling "__FUNCTION__"() with irq's on %d",
> fdc->irq_level);
> }
>
> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VER(2,0,16)
> if (waitqueue_active(&fdc->wait_intr)) {
> fdc_enable_irq(fdc);
> TRACE_ABORT(-EIO, ft_t_err, "error: nested call");
> }
> #else
> if (fdc->wait_intr) {
> fdc_enable_irq(fdc);
> TRACE_ABORT(-EIO, ft_t_err, "error: nested call");
> }
> #endif
> /* timeout time will be up to USPT microseconds too long ! */
> current->timeout = jiffies + (1000 * time + FT_USPT - 1) / FT_USPT;
> current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
>
> <etc>
>
> Therefor I can't compile the module "ftape" because of this error.
>
> I would appreciated some help in this.
>
> Thank-you
>
> Marc Denis Simard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Envoy� par MonCourrier.com
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