From de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Lezcano Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:16:28 -0700 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev Acked-by: Benjamin Thery Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/ipconfig.c') 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) && -- cgit v1.2.3