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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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net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
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@@ -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) &&