linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] uapi: move forward declarations of internal structures

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jul 2016 01:44:20 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uapi: move forward declarations of internal structures

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 03:15:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 00:58:08 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Move "struct completion;".
> > Move "struct task_struct;".
> 
> That tells us no more than does the diff.
> 
> What's the reason for this change?  Any perceptible benefit?

You're right.

Changelog should be

Don't user forward declarations of internal kernel structures
in headers exported to userspace.