Re: [PATCH] uapi: move forward declarations of internal structures

From	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] uapi: move forward declarations of internal structures
Date	2016-07-14 00:50 +0200
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 03:15:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 00:58:08 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Move "struct completion;".
> > Move "struct task_struct;".
> 
> That tells us no more than does the diff.
> 
> What's the reason for this change?  Any perceptible benefit?

You're right.

Changelog should be

Don't user forward declarations of internal kernel structures
in headers exported to userspace.

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[PATCH] uapi: move forward declarations of internal structures Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> - 2016-07-14 00:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] uapi: move forward declarations of internal structures Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-07-14 00:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] uapi: move forward declarations of internal structures Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> - 2016-07-14 00:50 +0200

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