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| author | Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> | 2007-09-26 04:16:28 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-11 01:52:14 +0200 |
| commit | de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5 (patch) | |
| tree | fe79764b8093843934c9b9f82f573e7a92cef406 /net/ipv6/addrconf.c | |
| parent | [NL80211]: add netlink interface to cfg80211 (diff) | |
| download | linux-de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5.tar.xz linux-de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5.zip | |
[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/ipv6/addrconf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c index 9c2e94f1c637..b43574f73375 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -2410,7 +2410,7 @@ static int addrconf_ifdown(struct net_device *dev, int how) ASSERT_RTNL(); - if (dev == &loopback_dev && how == 1) + if (dev == loopback_dev && how == 1) how = 0; rt6_ifdown(dev); @@ -4212,16 +4212,19 @@ int __init addrconf_init(void) * device and it being up should be removed. */ rtnl_lock(); - if (!ipv6_add_dev(&loopback_dev)) + if (!ipv6_add_dev(loopback_dev)) err = -ENOMEM; rtnl_unlock(); if (err) return err; - ip6_null_entry.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(&loopback_dev); + ip6_null_entry.u.dst.dev = loopback_dev; + ip6_null_entry.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(loopback_dev); #ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES - ip6_prohibit_entry.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(&loopback_dev); - ip6_blk_hole_entry.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(&loopback_dev); + ip6_prohibit_entry.u.dst.dev = loopback_dev; + ip6_prohibit_entry.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(loopback_dev); + ip6_blk_hole_entry.u.dst.dev = loopback_dev; + ip6_blk_hole_entry.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(loopback_dev); #endif register_netdevice_notifier(&ipv6_dev_notf); @@ -4276,7 +4279,7 @@ void __exit addrconf_cleanup(void) continue; addrconf_ifdown(dev, 1); } - addrconf_ifdown(&loopback_dev, 2); + addrconf_ifdown(loopback_dev, 2); /* * Check hash table. |