Re: [PATCH 01/20] staging/wilc1000: add struct net_device declaration

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 00:42 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A recent cleanup added a reference to struct net_device, but
> that structure is not always visible in the context of the
> declaration, so we may get a compile-time error:
> 
> In file included from wilc1000/host_interface.c:5:0:
> wilc1000/host_interface.h:705:46: warning: 'struct net_device' declared inside parameter list
>  s32 wilc_init(struct net_device *dev, struct host_if_drv **phWFIDrv);
> 
> This adds a forward-declaration for the structure name to avoid
> that error.

why not #include <linux/netdevice.h> ?

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