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| author | Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> | 2007-09-25 19:16:28 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-10 16:52:14 -0700 |
| commit | de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5 (patch) | |
| tree | fe79764b8093843934c9b9f82f573e7a92cef406 /net/core | |
| parent | 556829657397b9b05baec6691ead4e22ee8d1567 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5.zip op-kernel-dev-de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5.tar.gz | |
[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 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dst.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dst.c b/net/core/dst.c index 38c741a..ad5ffa1 100644 --- a/net/core/dst.c +++ b/net/core/dst.c @@ -278,13 +278,13 @@ static inline void dst_ifdown(struct dst_entry *dst, struct net_device *dev, if (!unregister) { dst->input = dst->output = dst_discard; } else { - dst->dev = &loopback_dev; - dev_hold(&loopback_dev); + dst->dev = loopback_dev; + dev_hold(dst->dev); dev_put(dev); if (dst->neighbour && dst->neighbour->dev == dev) { - dst->neighbour->dev = &loopback_dev; + dst->neighbour->dev = loopback_dev; dev_put(dev); - dev_hold(&loopback_dev); + dev_hold(dst->neighbour->dev); } } } |
