linux-kernel - Re: including <linux/workqueue.h> isn't self contained

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Date:	Thu, 8 Sep 2011 17:14:29 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	"Uwe Kleine-König" 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: including <linux/workqueue.h> isn't self contained

On Tuesday 06 September 2011, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> compiling drivers/rtc/rtc-imxdi.c currently results in:
> 
> drivers/rtc/rtc-imxdi.c: In function 'di_write_wait':
> drivers/rtc/rtc-imxdi.c:168:301: error: 'TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE' undeclared (first use in this function)
> drivers/rtc/rtc-imxdi.c:168:301: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> drivers/rtc/rtc-imxdi.c:168:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'signal_pending'
> drivers/rtc/rtc-imxdi.c:168:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'schedule_timeout'
> drivers/rtc/rtc-imxdi.c: In function 'dryice_norm_irq':
> drivers/rtc/rtc-imxdi.c:329:34: error: 'TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE' undeclared (first use in this function)
> 
> This is a regression from 
> 
>         4ba8216 (BKL: That's all, folks)
> 
> that removes #inclusion of <linux/sched.h> from include/linux/hardirq.h.
> 
> Adding
> 
>         #include <linux/sched.h>
> 
> to the driver fixes it, but I wonder if that is the correct fix because
> the driver only uses wait_event_interruptible_timeout (and
> wake_up_interruptible) explicitly but none of the three undeclared
> symbols.

Sorry about that. I would just include sched.h in there as an easy
workaround. Cleaning up the dependencies around sched.h is a larger
task and has been going on for roughly as long as the BKL removal,
so it's not your job to figure it out now.

	Arnd
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