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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:49:01 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:36:19 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > Use `struct kmem_cache' instead of `kmem_cache_t' and lo, you can
> > forward-declare it in the header file without having to include slab.h.
> > 
> > Patches which rid us of kmem_cache_t are always welcome..
> 
> Ok. So this patch would be acceptable?
> 
> 
> Remore kmem_cache_t from mm.
> 
> This patch removed all uses of kmem_cache_t from the code in mm/*.
> The typedef is replaced with a define to allow other code to compile.
> 

spose so, although I wouldn't bother about the typedef->#define change.  
We just keep on plugging away at it until one day we can just remove the typedef.