[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: Fix declaration of sound_class

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:

> > Include sound/core.h in sound_core.c so that sound_class is declared
> > before it is defined, avoiding it looking like it should be static.

> It's a question whether it should be in linux/sound.h or in
> sound/core.h, but as long as it's declared in the latter file, I
> think it's OK to included it from sound_core.c although it's not
> ALSA-specific.

Yeah, the OSS code doesn't use the prototype from the header at all but
instead has a local prototype in one of their C files which isn't
terribly clever.