Re: [patch] linux/io.h: forward declare struct pci_dev

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Feb 10 2007 - 22:49:36 EST


On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:45:50PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 9ac7849e35f705830f7b016ff272b0ff1f7ff759 causes this:
>
> CC arch/s390/mm/ioremap.o
> In file included from arch/s390/mm/ioremap.c:18:
> include/linux/io.h:46:
> warning: "struct pci_dev" declared inside parameter list
> include/linux/io.h:46:
> warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration,
> which is probably not what you want
>
> Guess it's time to get rid of ioremap.c on s390 if possible...
>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/io.h | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/io.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/io.h
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/io.h
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
> #include <asm/io.h>
> #include <asm/page.h>
>
> +struct pci_dev;
> struct device;

I haven't looked at what causes it, but any leakage of pci details
into io.h is bogus. I'd suggest that the original submitter fixes
up that problem instead.

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