Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc_fs.h redux

From: Russell King <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:34:15 +0000

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.

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Russell King
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