Message-ID: <1447199222.2701.109.camel@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/20] staging/wilc1000: add struct net_device
 declaration
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Johnny Kim <johnny.kim@atmel.com>, Austin Shin <austin.shin@atmel.com>,
        Chris Park <chris.park@atmel.com>, Tony Cho <tony.cho@atmel.com>,
        Glen Lee <glen.lee@atmel.com>, Leo Kim <leo.kim@atmel.com>,
        linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:47:02 -0800
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On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 00:42 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A recent cleanup added a reference to struct net_device, but
> that structure is not always visible in the context of the
> declaration, so we may get a compile-time error:
> 
> In file included from wilc1000/host_interface.c:5:0:
> wilc1000/host_interface.h:705:46: warning: 'struct net_device' declared inside parameter list
>  s32 wilc_init(struct net_device *dev, struct host_if_drv **phWFIDrv);
> 
> This adds a forward-declaration for the structure name to avoid
> that error.

why not #include <linux/netdevice.h> ?

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