The function debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() has a parameter of type struct device pointer. This type needs to be forward declared to avoid compilation issues on certain architectures and/or kernel configurations. The function was introduced with:
commit 98210b7f73f1db182bd9a558a031093cd166e907 Author: Arend van Spriel <[email protected]> Date: Sun Nov 9 11:31:58 2014 +0100 debugfs: add helper function to create device related seq_file The reported build failure for sparc64 architecture was: make.cross ARCH=sparc64 All warnings: In file included from fs/debugfs/file.c:21:0: include/linux/debugfs.h:105:10: warning: 'struct device' declared inside parameter list void *data)); ^ Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <[email protected]> --- include/linux/debugfs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h index 4bbe2ac..e3e9f31 100644 --- a/include/linux/debugfs.h +++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ #include <linux/types.h> +struct device; struct file_operations; struct debugfs_blob_wrapper { -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
