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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Margit Schubert-While <margitsw@t-online.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ranty@debian.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.xx - linux/firmware.h - missing include
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:30:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040319153008.D14431@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040319155257.00ac0af8@pop.t-online.de>; from margitsw@t-online.de on Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 04:17:45PM +0100

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 04:17:45PM +0100, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> The prototype for request_firmware uses a struct device parameter.
> This is only defined if linux/device.h is included.
> Fix is simple : include linux/device.h in linux/firmware.h

That way leads to madness in the includes.  firmware.h does not need
the definition of struct device, it only needs to know that struct
device exists.

You can do this via:

struct device;

before its use - this works much the same way as a function declaration
vs. function prototype.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-19 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-19 15:17 Margit Schubert-While
2004-03-19 15:30 ` Russell King [this message]
2004-03-19 18:36   ` Horst von Brand

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