Re: [PATCH] proc_fs.h redux

[Bernhard Walle]

* Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007-10-28 11:34]:
> 
> If you go down that route, you end up with _lots_ of circular
> dependencies - header file X needs Y needs Z which needs X.  We've
> been there, several times.  It very quickly becomes quite
> unmaintainable - you end up with hard to predict behaviour from
> include files.
> 
> The only realistic solution is to use forward declarations.

In header files, yes. But that's not true for implementation files.


Thanks,
   Bernhard
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