On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:49:50 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:30:20 -0800
> Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_STATIC
> > > +#include <linux/mm_types.h>
> > > +extern struct page mem_map[];
> > > +#else
> > > extern struct page* mem_map;
> > > #endif
> > > +#endif
> >
> > This looks rather unpleasant - what went wrong here?
> >
> definition of 'struct page' is necessary before declearing array[]. (for gcc-4.0)
hm, OK, that declaration needs all of `struct page' in scope.
>
> > Would prefer to unconditionally include the header file - conditional inclusions
> > like this can cause compile failures when someone changes a config option. They
> > generally raise the complexity level.
> >
> Okay.
> Now, forward declearation of 'struct page' is in mmzone.h.
> I'll remove it and include mm_types.h instead of it.
> If someone says "Don't do that", I'll look for anothere way.
>
This header needs mm_types.h, so including it is certainly OK - there's no
choice. But I think it'd be better to include mm_types.h outside of any
ifdefs. Just stick the #include at the start of the file as usual.
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