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authorWang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>2008-12-08 12:14:16 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-12-08 12:14:16 +0300
commitb74ca3a896b9ab5f952bc440154758e708c48884 (patch)
treecc67fc67ddd6ac20e25b1060ab633a4d5c4e6ee8 /Documentation/networking/driver.txt
parent5a001a070e032bea1be563b13ebf9819cd5e54d4 (diff)
downloadlinux-b74ca3a896b9ab5f952bc440154758e708c48884.tar.xz
netdevice: Kill netdev->priv
This is the last shoot of this series. After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing "priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs. Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly. If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv() instead. If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private data. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/driver.txt b/Documentation/networking/driver.txt
index ea72d2e66ca8..03283daa64fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/driver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/driver.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Transmit path guidelines:
static int drv_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct net_device *dev)
{
- struct drv *dp = dev->priv;
+ struct drv *dp = netdev_priv(dev);
lock_tx(dp);
...