Hi All,
*************************************************
error: variable `hdlc_cdevsw' has initializer but incomplete type
***************************************************

This is the error that i'm getting while trying to compiling  a driver
..inspite of  this way of declaration being  valid in gcc i'm getting this
error.
I have declared hdlc_open and defined CDEV_MAJOR prior to this .
static struct cdevsw  hdlc_cdevsw = {
        .d_name     = "hdlc_cdev",
        .d_maj      = CDEV_MAJOR,
        .d_open     = hdlc_open;
};
I'm here by providing the cdevsw structure for ur refrence .kindly let me
know why this err is occuring .
 Charac device structure
       struct cdevsw {
        int                       d_version;
        int                        d_maj;
        u_int                    d_flags;
        const char              *d_name;
        d_open_t                *d_open;
        d_fdopen_t              *d_fdopen;
        d_close_t               *d_close;
        d_read_t                *d_read;
        d_write_t               *d_write;
        d_ioctl_t               *d_ioctl;
        d_poll_t                *d_poll;
        d_mmap_t                *d_mmap;
        d_strategy_t            *d_strategy;
        dumper_t                *d_dump;
        d_kqfilter_t            *d_kqfilter;
        d_spare1_t              *d_spare1;
        d_spare2_t              *d_spare2;

        /* These fields should not be messed with by drivers */
        LIST_ENTRY(cdevsw)      d_list;
        LIST_HEAD(, cdev)       d_devs;
        int                     d_refcount;
};
 
kindly let me know what is the problem here
Thanks in Advance ,
RAshmi.N.S

"rashmi" <nsrashmi@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:6d25cdf9d90b8abac460089947c78336@localhost.talkaboutprogramming.com...
> Hi All,
> *************************************************
> error: variable `hdlc_cdevsw' has initializer but incomplete type
> ***************************************************
>
> This is the error that i'm getting while trying to compiling  a driver
> .inspite of  this way of declaration being  valid in gcc i'm getting this
> error.
> I have declared hdlc_open and defined CDEV_MAJOR prior to this .
> static struct cdevsw  hdlc_cdevsw = {
>         .d_name     = "hdlc_cdev",

^^^ dots aren't part of the name, they have special use -- when accessing
member of a structure but not when defining/declaring it. Remove the dots
here.

Alex

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:29:22 +0400, Alexei A. Frounze wrote:

> "rashmi" <nsrashmi@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:6d25cdf9d90b8abac460089947c78336@localhost.talkaboutprogramming.com...
>> Hi All,
>> *************************************************
>> error: variable `hdlc_cdevsw' has initializer but incomplete type
>> ***************************************************
>>
>> This is the error that i'm getting while trying to compiling  a driver
>> .inspite of  this way of declaration being  valid in gcc i'm getting this
>> error.
>> I have declared hdlc_open and defined CDEV_MAJOR prior to this .

The error is saying that the structure type is incomplete i.e. the
compiler cannot see a definition (i.e. the specification of the
structure members) of struct cdevsw at this point.

>> static struct cdevsw  hdlc_cdevsw = {
>>         .d_name     = "hdlc_cdev",
> 
> ^^^ dots aren't part of the name, they have special use -- when accessing
> member of a structure but not when defining/declaring it. Remove the dots
> here.

Dots aren't part of the name but they are part of the C99 named structure
member initialisation syntax so they are required here.

Lawrence