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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 | |
| 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')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/decnet/dn_dev.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/decnet/dn_route.c | 14 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 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; } diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_route.c b/net/decnet/dn_route.c index 70b1c3fa00f3..96fe0aa1638e 100644 --- a/net/decnet/dn_route.c +++ b/net/decnet/dn_route.c @@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ static int dn_route_output_slow(struct dst_entry **pprt, const struct flowi *old .scope = RT_SCOPE_UNIVERSE, } }, .mark = oldflp->mark, - .iif = loopback_dev.ifindex, + .iif = loopback_dev->ifindex, .oif = oldflp->oif }; struct dn_route *rt = NULL; struct net_device *dev_out = NULL, *dev; @@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ static int dn_route_output_slow(struct dst_entry **pprt, const struct flowi *old "dn_route_output_slow: dst=%04x src=%04x mark=%d" " iif=%d oif=%d\n", dn_ntohs(oldflp->fld_dst), dn_ntohs(oldflp->fld_src), - oldflp->mark, loopback_dev.ifindex, oldflp->oif); + oldflp->mark, loopback_dev->ifindex, oldflp->oif); /* If we have an output interface, verify its a DECnet device */ if (oldflp->oif) { @@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ source_ok: err = -EADDRNOTAVAIL; if (dev_out) dev_put(dev_out); - dev_out = &loopback_dev; + dev_out = loopback_dev; dev_hold(dev_out); if (!fl.fld_dst) { fl.fld_dst = @@ -966,7 +966,7 @@ source_ok: if (!fl.fld_dst) goto out; } - fl.oif = loopback_dev.ifindex; + fl.oif = loopback_dev->ifindex; res.type = RTN_LOCAL; goto make_route; } @@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ source_ok: if (dev_out) dev_put(dev_out); if (dn_dev_islocal(neigh->dev, fl.fld_dst)) { - dev_out = &loopback_dev; + dev_out = loopback_dev; res.type = RTN_LOCAL; } else { dev_out = neigh->dev; @@ -1033,7 +1033,7 @@ source_ok: /* Possible improvement - check all devices for local addr */ if (dn_dev_islocal(dev_out, fl.fld_dst)) { dev_put(dev_out); - dev_out = &loopback_dev; + dev_out = loopback_dev; dev_hold(dev_out); res.type = RTN_LOCAL; goto select_source; @@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ select_source: fl.fld_src = fl.fld_dst; if (dev_out) dev_put(dev_out); - dev_out = &loopback_dev; + dev_out = loopback_dev; dev_hold(dev_out); fl.oif = dev_out->ifindex; if (res.fi) |