linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 24/35] mfd: ab8500: Remove unnecessary 'struct device' declaration

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Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:49:04 +0000
From:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sameo@...ux.intel.com, linus.walleij@...ricsson.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/35] mfd: ab8500: Remove unnecessary 'struct device'
 declaration

On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Friday 15 February 2013, Lee Jones wrote:
> > A recent patch saw the device.h include being removed from some other
> > include files and replaced with a 'struct device' declaration instead.
> > However, neither the include nor the declaration is actually required.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/mfd/abx500.h |    2 --
> >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> In my copy of the file, we the declaration
> 
> 
> int ab8500_bm_of_probe(struct device *dev,
>                        struct device_node *np,
>                        struct abx500_bm_data *bm);
> 
> 
> 
> and others that use 'struct device'. C99 requires that a struct is declared
> in advance  before you use it in a function declaration.

Hmm... I wonder why it doesn't complain then?

I'll remove the patch.

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