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| author | Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> | 2007-09-25 19:16:28 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-10 16:52:14 -0700 |
| commit | de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5 (patch) | |
| tree | fe79764b8093843934c9b9f82f573e7a92cef406 /drivers | |
| parent | 556829657397b9b05baec6691ead4e22ee8d1567 (diff) | |
| download | linux-de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5.tar.bz2 | |
[NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 1.
This patch replaces all occurences to the static variable
loopback_dev to a pointer loopback_dev. That provides the
mindless, trivial, uninteressting change part for the dynamic
allocation for the loopback.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/loopback.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c index 0e2252fd71ab..588092e13186 100644 --- a/drivers/net/loopback.c +++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static const struct ethtool_ops loopback_ethtool_ops = { * The loopback device is special. There is only one instance and * it is statically allocated. Don't do this for other devices. */ -struct net_device loopback_dev = { +struct net_device __loopback_dev = { .name = "lo", .get_stats = &get_stats, .mtu = (16 * 1024) + 20 + 20 + 12, @@ -227,10 +227,12 @@ struct net_device loopback_dev = { .nd_net = &init_net, }; +struct net_device *loopback_dev = &__loopback_dev; + /* Setup and register the loopback device. */ static int __init loopback_init(void) { - int err = register_netdev(&loopback_dev); + int err = register_netdev(loopback_dev); if (err) panic("loopback: Failed to register netdevice: %d\n", err); |