rtc.h is not needed in alarmtimers when a forward declaration of struct rtc_device is provided. That allows to include posix-timers.h without adding more includes to alarmtimer.h or creating circular include dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> --- include/linux/alarmtimer.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/linux/alarmtimer.h +++ b/include/linux/alarmtimer.h @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ #include <linux/time.h> #include <linux/hrtimer.h> #include <linux/timerqueue.h> -#include <linux/rtc.h> + +struct rtc_device; enum alarmtimer_type { ALARM_REALTIME,