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authorDaniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>2007-09-25 19:16:28 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-10-10 16:52:14 -0700
commitde3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5 (patch)
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parent556829657397b9b05baec6691ead4e22ee8d1567 (diff)
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[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>
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diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
index 7d18cac..9149fc2 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ int ipv6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct packet_type *pt
*
* BTW, when we send a packet for our own local address on a
* non-loopback interface (e.g. ethX), it is being delivered
- * via the loopback interface (lo) here; skb->dev = &loopback_dev.
+ * via the loopback interface (lo) here; skb->dev = loopback_dev.
* It, however, should be considered as if it is being
* arrived via the sending interface (ethX), because of the
* nature of scoping architecture. --yoshfuji
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