Re: [PATCH] include linux/fs.h in linux/cdev.h for struct inode

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Fri Jan 19 2007 - 17:26:52 EST



>Subject: [PATCH] include linux/fs.h in linux/cdev.h for struct inode

NAK.

Better is this:

Add missing struct predeclarations, otherwise we may get

x.c:2: warning: âstruct inodeâ declared inside parameter list
x.c:2: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is
probably not what you want

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6.20-rc5/include/linux/cdev.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.20-rc5.orig/include/linux/cdev.h
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc5/include/linux/cdev.h
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
#include <linux/kdev_t.h>
#include <linux/list.h>

+struct file_operations;
+struct inode;
+struct module;
+
struct cdev {
struct kobject kobj;
struct module *owner;