linux-kernel - Re: QUERY: Inclusion of header files in kernel header files

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Date:	Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:58:04 +0530
From:	viresh kumar <viresh.linux@...il.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...glemail.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: QUERY: Inclusion of header files in kernel header files

> Before someone goes crazy and starts sending hundreds of patches to the trivial patch folks,
> please make sure that you only do this for places where header file foo uses "struct bar" in
>bar.h --- and NOT if it is using "struct bar *".    Blind structure pointers don't cause compile
>failures, and is a perfectly good thing from the standpoint of data hiding.
>

Ted,
Actually bus.h is using direct instances of these structures and thus
it is giving compilation warnings.


viresh.
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