Most shared headers in include/linux don't need to know what the internals of a struct module are; all they care about is that it is a struct and hence they may require a pointer to one.
The advantage in this is that module.h is including a lot of stuff itself, and an otherwise empty C file that just contains module.h will result in ~750kB from CPP (compared to say 12kB from init.h) So we have approximately 50 instances of "struct module;" in the various include/linux headers already that help us keep module.h out of other headers; here we do the same for gpio. Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnu...@gmail.com> Cc: linux-g...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com> --- include/linux/gpio/driver.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/gpio/driver.h b/include/linux/gpio/driver.h index 50882e09289b..216e6f275aa8 100644 --- a/include/linux/gpio/driver.h +++ b/include/linux/gpio/driver.h @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ #include <linux/device.h> #include <linux/types.h> -#include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/irq.h> #include <linux/irqchip/chained_irq.h> #include <linux/irqdomain.h> @@ -16,6 +15,7 @@ struct of_phandle_args; struct device_node; struct seq_file; struct gpio_device; +struct module; #ifdef CONFIG_GPIOLIB -- 2.8.4
