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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 /drivers/net/loopback.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 'drivers/net/loopback.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/loopback.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c
index 0e2252fd71ab..588092e13186 100644
--- a/drivers/net/loopback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static const struct ethtool_ops loopback_ethtool_ops = {
* The loopback device is special. There is only one instance and
* it is statically allocated. Don't do this for other devices.
*/
-struct net_device loopback_dev = {
+struct net_device __loopback_dev = {
.name = "lo",
.get_stats = &get_stats,
.mtu = (16 * 1024) + 20 + 20 + 12,
@@ -227,10 +227,12 @@ struct net_device loopback_dev = {
.nd_net = &init_net,
};
+struct net_device *loopback_dev = &__loopback_dev;
+
/* Setup and register the loopback device. */
static int __init loopback_init(void)
{
- int err = register_netdev(&loopback_dev);
+ int err = register_netdev(loopback_dev);
if (err)
panic("loopback: Failed to register netdevice: %d\n", err);