Here is how I did on my Ubuntu 12.04.
First I have downloaded and installed Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Linux Developers in /opt/eclipse .
Just download and extract the archive, and simply run /opt/eclipse/eclipse .
The one provided by Ubuntu should work too, but require some more packages, at least eclipse-cdt.
As a module sample, I chose the one from article A Simple Block Driver for Linux Kernel 2.6.31
Download or Cut&Paste sbd.c and Makefile in directory ~workspace/sdb (I prefer ~/Documents/workspace/sdb).
Be careful if you Cut&Paste, Makefile expect TAB instead of spaces !
Then create a new project in eclipse
And import the sources
Now when sdb.c is open in eclipse, you should see a lot of syntax errors !
To avoid these messages, you must add some paths and symbols to the project :
Right-click on your project and select properties at the bottom, then add the path of your Linux header files:
/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-24-generic/include is where Ubuntu put the headers of my kernel. I found it doing a
# ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/buildDon't forget the include at the end of both entries.
Then add symbols __KERNEL__ with value 1 and CONFIG_BLOCK without value. Maybe more variables could be required for more complex module.
After this, I still have problem with the macro module_param.
If you find the solution, please tell me !
