From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: "Liu, Changcheng" <changcheng.liu@intel.com>
Cc: jiangshanlai@gmail.com, tj@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: define struct workqueue_struct in C file
Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 01:30:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180526003026.GM30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180524151013.GA175207@sofia>
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 11:10:14PM +0800, Liu, Changcheng wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have one confusion about workqueue_struct:
> 1) Why struct workqueue_struct is defined in C file instead of
> header file?
To prevent all other code poking in its guts?
> I'm trying to print "workqueue_struct:name" field in one external
> build module. "workqueue_struct:name" can't be accessed directly.
... thus allowing implementation details be changed at later point without
worrying about breaking other code.
There are objects that are accessible via opaque pointers, with the set of
(widely used) primitives being the only code that has access to actual
structure layout. Some are in a local header (outside of include search
path, and very much *NOT* supposed to be included outside of a few C
files implementing the public interfaces), some are outright local in
C file.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-26 0:30 UTC|newest]
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2018-05-24 15:10 define struct workqueue_struct in C file Liu, Changcheng
2018-05-26 0:30 ` Al Viro [this message]
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