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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Slab: Remove kmem_cache_t
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:41:22 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <456D1D82.3060001@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061128200619.67080e11.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:42:44 +1100
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>So what exactly is wrong with
>>a kmem_cache_t declaration in include files, then?
> 
> 
> a) it's a typedef and
> 
> b) it's a typedef, and you cannot forward-declare typedefs.  We've hit this
>    a couple of times.  Header files need to include slab.h just to be able to do
> 
> 	extern kmem_cache_t *wozzle;

So why doesn't

   typedef struct kmem_cache kmem_cache_t;
   extern kmem_cache_t *wozzle;

work?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-29  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-29  2:49 Christoph Lameter
2006-11-29  3:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-29  4:06 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29  3:32   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-29  4:42     ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29  3:48       ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29  4:06       ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-29  4:38         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-29  5:51           ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 15:48             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-30  1:40               ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30  1:59                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-30  2:14                   ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30  2:37                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-30  2:51                       ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29  6:21           ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 16:11             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-29  5:41         ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-11-29  6:24           ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-29  6:41             ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29  7:08               ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-29  7:23                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29  7:41                   ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-29  8:04                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 16:23                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-30  1:44                         ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 19:16               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-29  8:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-29 19:27   ` Christoph Lameter

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