[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>
This commit is contained in:
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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@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static void inetdev_destroy(struct in_device *in_dev)
ASSERT_RTNL();
dev = in_dev->dev;
if (dev == &loopback_dev)
if (dev == loopback_dev)
return;
in_dev->dead = 1;
@@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
in_dev = inetdev_init(dev);
if (!in_dev)
return notifier_from_errno(-ENOMEM);
if (dev == &loopback_dev) {
if (dev == loopback_dev) {
IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, NOXFRM, 1);
IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, NOPOLICY, 1);
}
@@ -1077,7 +1077,7 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
case NETDEV_UP:
if (dev->mtu < 68)
break;
if (dev == &loopback_dev) {
if (dev == loopback_dev) {
struct in_ifaddr *ifa;
if ((ifa = inet_alloc_ifa()) != NULL) {
ifa->ifa_local =