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Subject: Re: [RFC] [Patch 1/4] statistics: no include hell for users
From: Dave Hansen <hansendc@us.ibm.com>
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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:39:47 -0700
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To: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
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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.

-- Dave