linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cdev.h needs struct inode; add forward declaration

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Date:	Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:48:38 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Josh Triplett <josh@...nel.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cdev.h needs struct inode; add forward declaration


>include/linux/cdev.h defines cd_forget to take a struct inode *, but does not
>pull in any definition or declaration for struct inode.  This generates a
>compiler warning if a source file pulls in cdev.h without first pulling in
>fs.h.  Add a forward declaration of struct inode to cdev.h, to eliminate the
>compiler warning and preserve the ability to include headers in any arbitrary
>order.

We've been over this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/19/119
The patch went in into -mm and out again (why? - no reason was 
attached, Andrew.)


Jan
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