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author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2014-03-07 17:41:32 +0100 |
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committer | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2014-03-07 17:41:32 +0100 |
commit | b7d3622a39fde7658170b7f3cf6c6889bb8db30d (patch) | |
tree | 64f4e781ecb2a85d675e234072b988560bcd25f1 /Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt | |
parent | audit: whitespace fix in kernel-parameters.txt (diff) | |
parent | Linux 3.13 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'v3.13' into for-3.15
Linux 3.13
Conflicts:
include/net/xfrm.h
Simple merge where v3.13 removed 'extern' from definitions and the audit
tree did s/u32/unsigned int/ to the same definitions.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt index c7ecc7080494..0b1cf6b2a592 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt @@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ network devices. struct net_device allocation rules ================================== Network device structures need to persist even after module is unloaded and -must be allocated with kmalloc. If device has registered successfully, -it will be freed on last use by free_netdev. This is required to handle the -pathologic case cleanly (example: rmmod mydriver </sys/class/net/myeth/mtu ) +must be allocated with alloc_netdev_mqs() and friends. +If device has registered successfully, it will be freed on last use +by free_netdev(). This is required to handle the pathologic case cleanly +(example: rmmod mydriver </sys/class/net/myeth/mtu ) -There are routines in net_init.c to handle the common cases of -alloc_etherdev, alloc_netdev. These reserve extra space for driver +alloc_netdev_mqs()/alloc_netdev() reserve extra space for driver private data which gets freed when the network device is freed. If separately allocated data is attached to the network device (netdev_priv(dev)) then it is up to the module exit handler to free that. |