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authorDaniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>2007-09-25 19:16:28 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-10-10 16:52:14 -0700
commitde3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5 (patch)
treefe79764b8093843934c9b9f82f573e7a92cef406 /net/ipv4/devinet.c
parent556829657397b9b05baec6691ead4e22ee8d1567 (diff)
downloadlinux-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/ipv4/devinet.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/devinet.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 721b89b60963..affea9b121fc 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static void inetdev_destroy(struct in_device *in_dev)
ASSERT_RTNL();
dev = in_dev->dev;
- if (dev == &loopback_dev)
+ if (dev == loopback_dev)
return;
in_dev->dead = 1;
@@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
in_dev = inetdev_init(dev);
if (!in_dev)
return notifier_from_errno(-ENOMEM);
- if (dev == &loopback_dev) {
+ if (dev == loopback_dev) {
IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, NOXFRM, 1);
IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, NOPOLICY, 1);
}
@@ -1077,7 +1077,7 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
case NETDEV_UP:
if (dev->mtu < 68)
break;
- if (dev == &loopback_dev) {
+ if (dev == loopback_dev) {
struct in_ifaddr *ifa;
if ((ifa = inet_alloc_ifa()) != NULL) {
ifa->ifa_local =