Re: [RFC] [Patch 1/4] statistics: no include hell for users

[Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>]

Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 23:33 +0200, Martin Peschke wrote:
>>  struct statistic_interface {
>>  /* private: */
>>         struct list_head         list;
>> -       struct dentry           *debugfs_dir;
>> -       struct dentry           *data_file;
>> -       struct dentry           *def_file;
>> +       void                    *debugfs_dir;
>> +       void                    *data_file;
>> +       void                    *def_file; 
> 
> If you don't actually dereference the pointer, you should just be able
> to declare:
> 
> 	struct dentry;
> 
> and be done with it, right?  You don't _need_ the includes to have just
> pointers.

Ah, looks like an established trick in kernel include files.
I guess I can revert the other, seq_file related change then as well.
Thank you. Will change my local copy.

Martin