Compiling issues hal from CVS

[Stef van der Made]

Dear Guys,

I'm trying to get hal compiled so that I can start using the latest 
gnome software who is dependant on hal. I have been able to solve some 
of the issues using the mailing list but I'm really stuck now. I've 
checkedout hal yesterday from CVS and ran ./autogen.h and then make.

What is my problem. During the compile I get this error

In file included from linux/platform_bus_device.c:43:
/usr/include/linux/fd.h:342: error: variable or field `__user' declared void
/usr/include/linux/fd.h:342: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/linux/fd.h:360: error: parse error before '}' token
make[3]: *** [platform_bus_device.o] Error 1

I have been looking at the offending files but I can't seem to find 
anything wrong as I'm a not a programmer. My fd.h file which seems to be 
causing the issue looks like this it is the kernel header file for 2.6.7:

<snip>

/* more "out" flags */
#define FD_RAW_FAILURE 0x10000 /* command sent to fdc, fdc returned error */
#define FD_RAW_HARDFAILURE 0x20000 /* fdc had to be reset, or timed out */

        void __user *data;
        char *kernel_data; /* location of data buffer in the kernel */
        struct floppy_raw_cmd *next; /* used for chaining of raw cmd's
                                      * within the kernel */
        long length; /* in: length of dma transfer. out: remaining bytes */
        long phys_length; /* physical length, if different from dma 
length */
        int buffer_length; /* length of allocated buffer */

        unsigned char rate;
        unsigned char cmd_count;
        unsigned char cmd[16];
        unsigned char reply_count;
        unsigned char reply[16];
        int track;
        int resultcode;

        int reserved1;
        int reserved2;
};

#define FDRAWCMD _IO(2, 0x58)
/* send a raw command to the fdc. Structure size not included, because of
 * batches */

#define FDTWADDLE _IO(2, 0x59)
/* flicker motor-on bit before reading a sector. Experimental */


#define FDEJECT _IO(2, 0x5a)
/* eject the disk */

#endif

Thanks in advance for your help,

Stef

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