Re: [patch 17/18] net/rfkill/rfkill-input.c needs <linux/sched.h>

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Tue Oct 14 2008 - 03:24:17 EST


On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > For some m68k configs, I get:
> >
> > | net/rfkill/rfkill-input.c: In function 'rfkill_start':
> > | net/rfkill/rfkill-input.c:208: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> >
> > As the incomplete type is `struct task_struct', including <linux/sched.h> fixes
> > it.
>
> Line 208 is this (in latest Linus mainline and also v2.6.27):
>
> spin_unlock_irq(&handle->dev->event_lock);
>
> So we need to include sched.h to everything that uses spin_unlock_irq? If
> only some variants of m68k need that, shouldn't it have been added on the
> header that defines spin_unlock_irq() on those arches, instead?

Unfortunately that's not possible, due to Include Hell(tm).
Therefore, including <linux/sched.h> is the way this has been fixed in
the past.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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