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authorDaniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>2007-09-26 06:16:28 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-10-11 03:52:14 +0400
commitde3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5 (patch)
treefe79764b8093843934c9b9f82f573e7a92cef406 /net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
parent556829657397b9b05baec6691ead4e22ee8d1567 (diff)
downloadlinux-de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5.tar.xz
[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.c6
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) &&