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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/ipconfig.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/ipconfig.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c index 4303851749f6..2d2e0cda0470 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c @@ -190,11 +190,11 @@ static int __init ic_open_devs(void) rtnl_lock(); /* bring loopback device up first */ - if (dev_change_flags(&loopback_dev, loopback_dev.flags | IFF_UP) < 0) - printk(KERN_ERR "IP-Config: Failed to open %s\n", loopback_dev.name); + if (dev_change_flags(loopback_dev, loopback_dev->flags | IFF_UP) < 0) + printk(KERN_ERR "IP-Config: Failed to open %s\n", loopback_dev->name); for_each_netdev(&init_net, dev) { - if (dev == &loopback_dev) + if (dev == loopback_dev) continue; if (user_dev_name[0] ? !strcmp(dev->name, user_dev_name) : (!(dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) && |