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Date:   Thu, 3 Feb 2022 15:10:21 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, j.vosburgh@...il.com,
        vfalico@...il.com, andy@...yhouse.net, oliver@...kum.org,
        yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, dsahern@...nel.org, alex.aring@...il.com,
        jukka.rissanen@...ux.intel.com, stefan@...enfreihafen.org,
        jk@...econstruct.com.au, matt@...econstruct.com.au,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: don't include ndisc.h from ipv6.h

On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 15:48:28 -0700 David Ahern wrote:
> > --- a/include/net/ndisc.h
> > +++ b/include/net/ndisc.h
> > @@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ do {								\
> >  
> >  struct ctl_table;
> >  struct inet6_dev;
> > -struct net_device;  
> 
> ndisc_parse_options references net_device. This part seems unrelated to
> the patch intent.

Indeed, I'll post v2 with this fixed. The reason was this header
includes linux/netdevice.h so the forward declaration is unnecessary.