Re: skull_read (device driver) - incompatible pointer type

[Shine Mohamed Jabbar <shinemohamed_j@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please compare the definition of your read fuction and
what is given in the struct file_operations


Regards,
Shine Mohamed Jabbar

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 16:23, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I am a new member and this is my first post.
> 
> I have written a sample device driver (on 2.6.5-mm1 kernel) and I am
> getting this "read.c:45: warning: initialization from incompatible
> pointer type" while compiling the code. Everything works in the code,
> except the read function. The complete problem and code can be viewed
> here:
> 
> http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=87071
> 
> I have declared the skull_fops like this and the line 45 is the line
> containing the "read: skull_read":
> 
> struct file_operations skull_fops = {
> read: skull_read,
> open: skull_open,
> release: skull_release,
> };
> 
> I have used the skull_read function like this:
> 
> int skull_read (struct inode *inode, struct file *file, char *buffer, int count)
> 
> I would appreciate if you can tell me what is the error and how I can
> get this working.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> K Shakthi


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