linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/20] staging/wilc1000: add struct net

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Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:47:02 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Johnny Kim <johnny.kim@...el.com>,
	Austin Shin <austin.shin@...el.com>,
	Chris Park <chris.park@...el.com>,
	Tony Cho <tony.cho@...el.com>, Glen Lee <glen.lee@...el.com>,
	Leo Kim <leo.kim@...el.com>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/20] staging/wilc1000: add struct net_device
 declaration

On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 00:42 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A recent cleanup added a reference to struct net_device, but
> that structure is not always visible in the context of the
> declaration, so we may get a compile-time error:
> 
> In file included from wilc1000/host_interface.c:5:0:
> wilc1000/host_interface.h:705:46: warning: 'struct net_device' declared inside parameter list
>  s32 wilc_init(struct net_device *dev, struct host_if_drv **phWFIDrv);
> 
> This adds a forward-declaration for the structure name to avoid
> that error.

why not #include <linux/netdevice.h> ?

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