[PATCH] fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations

From: Yuto Ohnuki

Date: Mon Dec 29 2025 - 02:14:53 EST


Remove the following unnecessary forward declarations from fs.h, which
improves maintainability.

- struct hd_geometry: became unused when block_device_operations was
moved to blkdev.h in commit 08f858512151 ("[PATCH] move
block_device_operations to blkdev.h")

- struct iovec: became unused when aio_read/aio_write were removed in
commit 8436318205b9 ("->aio_read and ->aio_write removed")

- struct iov_iter (line 1910): duplicate of the declaration at line 70,
added in commit 293bc9822fa9 ("new methods: ->read_iter()
and ->write_iter()")

Signed-off-by: Yuto Ohnuki <ytohnuki@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/fs.h | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index f5c9cf28c4dc..598096ec2dee 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -55,8 +55,6 @@ struct bdi_writeback;
struct bio;
struct io_comp_batch;
struct fiemap_extent_info;
-struct hd_geometry;
-struct iovec;
struct kiocb;
struct kobject;
struct pipe_inode_info;
@@ -1907,7 +1905,6 @@ struct dir_context {
*/
#define COPY_FILE_SPLICE (1 << 0)

-struct iov_iter;
struct io_uring_cmd;
struct offset_ctx;

--
2.50.1




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