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authorWang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>2008-12-08 01:14:16 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-12-08 01:14:16 -0800
commitb74ca3a896b9ab5f952bc440154758e708c48884 (patch)
treecc67fc67ddd6ac20e25b1060ab633a4d5c4e6ee8 /include/linux
parent5a001a070e032bea1be563b13ebf9819cd5e54d4 (diff)
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 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/hdlc.h2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h1
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/hdlc.h b/include/linux/hdlc.h
index e960faac609..fd47a151665 100644
--- a/include/linux/hdlc.h
+++ b/include/linux/hdlc.h
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct hdlc_proto {
};
-/* Pointed to by dev->priv */
+/* Pointed to by netdev_priv(dev) */
typedef struct hdlc_device {
/* used by HDLC layer to take control over HDLC device from hw driver*/
int (*attach)(struct net_device *dev,
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 0df0db068ac..47e73152831 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -785,7 +785,6 @@ struct net_device
/*
* One part is mostly used on xmit path (device)
*/
- void *priv; /* pointer to private data */
/* These may be needed for future network-power-down code. */
unsigned long trans_start; /* Time (in jiffies) of last Tx */