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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/ipv4/devinet.c | |
| parent | [NL80211]: add netlink interface to cfg80211 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5.tar.xz linux-dev-de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5.zip | |
[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.c | 6 |
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 = |