On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 22:19 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The target core runs into a warning in the linux/sbitmap.h
> file in some configurations:
>
> In file included from include/target/target_core_base.h:7,
> from drivers/target/target_core_fabric_lib.c:41:
> include/linux/sbitmap.h:331:46: error: 'struct seq_file' declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration [-Werror]
> void sbitmap_show(struct sbitmap *sb, struct seq_file *m);
> ^~~~~~~~
>
> In general, headers should not depend on others being included first,
> so this fixes it with a forward declaration for that struct name, but
> we probably want to merge the patch through the scsi tree to help
> bisection.
>
> Fixes: 10e9cbb6b531 ("scsi: target: Convert target drivers to use sbitmap")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: move declaration to the start of the header, as suggested by Bart
> ---
> include/linux/sbitmap.h | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sbitmap.h b/include/linux/sbitmap.h
> index e6539536dea9..804a50983ec5 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sbitmap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sbitmap.h
> @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
>
> +struct seq_file;
> +
> /**
> * struct sbitmap_word - Word in a &struct sbitmap.
> */
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
