* [PATCH] fs: debugfs: add forward declaration for struct device type
@ 2014-11-30 15:31 Arend van Spriel
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From: Arend van Spriel @ 2014-11-30 15:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman; +Cc: linux-kernel, Arend van Spriel
The function debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() has a parameter of type
struct device pointer. This type needs to be forward declared to
avoid compilation issues on certain architectures and/or kernel
configurations. The function was introduced with:
commit 98210b7f73f1db182bd9a558a031093cd166e907
Author: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Date: Sun Nov 9 11:31:58 2014 +0100
debugfs: add helper function to create device related seq_file
The reported build failure for sparc64 architecture was:
make.cross ARCH=sparc64
All warnings:
In file included from fs/debugfs/file.c:21:0:
include/linux/debugfs.h:105:10: warning: 'struct device' declared
inside parameter list
void *data));
^
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
---
include/linux/debugfs.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h
index 4bbe2ac..e3e9f31 100644
--- a/include/linux/debugfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
+struct device;
struct file_operations;
struct debugfs_blob_wrapper {
--
1.9.1
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