In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
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> i have been trying to modify a device driver. I want to write a code
> to retrieve the system date and time. My code runs fine as a normal c
> program but it does not even compile when I insert the same in a
> device driver.
> Can you tell me whats wrong?
You cannot call standard C library functions in kernel code.
You can only use functions provided by the kernel. See
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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