On Oct 28 2007 10:34, Russell King wrote: >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.
Especially because it reduces the amount of I/O that needs to be done. - 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/
