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| author | Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> | 2007-09-26 06:16:28 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-11 03:52:14 +0400 |
| commit | de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5 (patch) | |
| tree | fe79764b8093843934c9b9f82f573e7a92cef406 /include/linux/netdevice.h | |
| parent | 556829657397b9b05baec6691ead4e22ee8d1567 (diff) | |
| download | linux-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 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index cf89ce677e41..baa915f0d285 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ struct packet_type { #include <linux/interrupt.h> #include <linux/notifier.h> -extern struct net_device loopback_dev; /* The loopback */ +extern struct net_device *loopback_dev; /* The loopback */ extern rwlock_t dev_base_lock; /* Device list lock */ |