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fs: debugfs: add forward declaration for struct device type

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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 <arend@broadcom.com>
  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 <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Arend van Spriel
2014-11-30 16:31:21 +01:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent daa3d67fa3
commit f30d0a815b
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@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
struct device;
struct file_operations;
struct debugfs_blob_wrapper {