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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 /net/decnet/dn_dev.c | |
| 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 'net/decnet/dn_dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/decnet/dn_dev.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c index fa24614b5a37..bcaf4c5aa68e 100644 --- a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c +++ b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c @@ -869,10 +869,10 @@ last_chance: rv = dn_dev_get_first(dev, addr); read_unlock(&dev_base_lock); dev_put(dev); - if (rv == 0 || dev == &loopback_dev) + if (rv == 0 || dev == loopback_dev) return rv; } - dev = &loopback_dev; + dev = loopback_dev; dev_hold(dev); goto last_chance; } |