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| author | Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2008-12-08 10:14:16 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-12-08 10:14:16 +0100 |
| commit | b74ca3a896b9ab5f952bc440154758e708c48884 (patch) | |
| tree | cc67fc67ddd6ac20e25b1060ab633a4d5c4e6ee8 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | staging-winbond: Kill directly reference of netdev->priv (diff) | |
| download | linux-b74ca3a896b9ab5f952bc440154758e708c48884.tar.xz linux-b74ca3a896b9ab5f952bc440154758e708c48884.zip | |
netdevice: Kill netdev->priv
This is the last shoot of this series.
After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing
"priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs.
Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly.
If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv()
instead.
If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use
netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private
data.
Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/driver.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/driver.txt b/Documentation/networking/driver.txt index ea72d2e66ca8..03283daa64fe 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/driver.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/driver.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Transmit path guidelines: static int drv_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) { - struct drv *dp = dev->priv; + struct drv *dp = netdev_priv(dev); lock_tx(dp); ... diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt index d0f71fc7f782..a2ab6a0b116d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ There are routines in net_init.c to handle the common cases of alloc_etherdev, alloc_netdev. These 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 -(dev->priv) then it is up to the module exit handler to free that. +(netdev_priv(dev)) then it is up to the module exit handler to free that. MTU === |