Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc_fs.h redux

From: Bernhard Walle <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:59:52 +0100

* Russell King <[email-masked]> [2007-10-28 11:34]:
> 
> 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.

In header files, yes. But that's not true for implementation files.

Thanks,
   Bernhard