Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/20] staging/wilc1000: add struct net_device declaration | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:47:02 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 00:42 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > A recent cleanup added a reference to struct net_device, but > that structure is not always visible in the context of the > declaration, so we may get a compile-time error: > > In file included from wilc1000/host_interface.c:5:0: > wilc1000/host_interface.h:705:46: warning: 'struct net_device' declared inside parameter list > s32 wilc_init(struct net_device *dev, struct host_if_drv **phWFIDrv); > > This adds a forward-declaration for the structure name to avoid > that error.
why not #include <linux/netdevice.h> ?
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