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[NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 1.

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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>
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Daniel Lezcano
2007-09-25 19:16:28 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 5568296573
commit de3cb747ff
16 changed files with 55 additions and 53 deletions
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drivers/net/loopback.c
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@@ -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);