linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] MMC / TMIO: Fix build issue related to struct scatterlist

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:07:31 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org, Chris Ball <cjb@...top.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MMC / TMIO: Fix build issue related to struct scatterlist

On Thursday, July 28, 2011, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday, July 27, 2011, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > (added MMC maintainer to CC:)
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > 
> > > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
> > > > 
> > > > Fix build issue caused by undefined struct scatterlist in
> > > > drivers/mmc/host/tmio_mmc.c.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
> > > 
> > > A nitpick, if I may: sCatterlist comes before sPinlock in my versions of 
> > > most popular alphabets;-) Please, fix (or maybe Chris can fix it himself), 
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you mean exactly (perhaps it's too late).
> 
> I mean, that the headers are atm sorted alphabetically and should remain 
> so, therefore you should add the new header one line higher.

Ah.  Well, as I said the patch had been merged already, so obviously
Linus didn't care. :-)

> As for compile failure or not: I haven't seen any compile failures myself, but 
> the patch is academically correct, because structs, declared in tmio_mmc.h 
> embed struct scatterlist, therefore the header has to be included in that 
> header too.

Exactly.  I've seen a real failure, though.

Thanks,
Rafael
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