Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 8/8] uml: avoid "CONFIG_NR_CPUS undeclared" bogus error messages

[Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:01:28PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
> Gerd Knorr in his tty patch, instead, used forward declarations, like:
> 
> struct task_struct; 
> 
> what about that?

I don't think so.  At least when you use void *, you are using a type
that's not incorrect.  In userspace code, those task_structs start
referring to host task_structs, which is definitely very wrong.

> Those functions probably should be moved anyway because they're
> useless there

Yeah.

				Jeff
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