On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 03:40:04PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > and forward declarations of > > struct proc_dir_entry; > struct file_operations; > > As a general rule, I think it better to use includes > than use naked forward declarations.
If you go down that route, you end up with _lots_ of circular dependencies - header file X needs Y needs Z which needs X. We've been there, several times. It very quickly becomes quite unmaintainable - you end up with hard to predict behaviour from include files. The only realistic solution is to use forward declarations. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
