Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965230AbXFFVkn (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:40:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936017AbXFFVkW (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:40:22 -0400 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:58102 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935914AbXFFVkV (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:40:21 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] [Patch 1/4] statistics: no include hell for users From: Dave Hansen To: Martin Peschke Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, jbaron@redhat.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, billh@gnuppy.monkey.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1181165609.7133.20.camel@dix> References: <1181165609.7133.20.camel@dix> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:39:47 -0700 Message-Id: <1181165987.22388.81.camel@spirit.sr71.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 868 Lines: 27 On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 23:33 +0200, Martin Peschke wrote: > > struct statistic_interface { > /* private: */ > struct list_head list; > - struct dentry *debugfs_dir; > - struct dentry *data_file; > - struct dentry *def_file; > + void *debugfs_dir; > + void *data_file; > + void *def_file; If you don't actually dereference the pointer, you should just be able to declare: struct dentry; and be done with it, right? You don't _need_ the includes to have just pointers. -- Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/