From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <456D1D82.3060001@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:41:22 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Slab: Remove kmem_cache_t References: <456D0757.6050903@yahoo.com.au> <456D0FC4.4050704@yahoo.com.au> <20061128200619.67080e11.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061128200619.67080e11.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@kvack.org, Linus Torvalds List-ID: Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:42:44 +1100 > Nick Piggin 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? -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org