From de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Lezcano Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:16:28 -0700 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev Acked-by: Benjamin Thery Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/loopback.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/loopback.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c index 0e2252fd71a..588092e1318 100644 --- a/drivers/net/loopback.c +++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static const struct ethtool_ops loopback_ethtool_ops = { * The loopback device is special. There is only one instance and * it is statically allocated. Don't do this for other devices. */ -struct net_device loopback_dev = { +struct net_device __loopback_dev = { .name = "lo", .get_stats = &get_stats, .mtu = (16 * 1024) + 20 + 20 + 12, @@ -227,10 +227,12 @@ struct net_device loopback_dev = { .nd_net = &init_net, }; +struct net_device *loopback_dev = &__loopback_dev; + /* Setup and register the loopback device. */ static int __init loopback_init(void) { - int err = register_netdev(&loopback_dev); + int err = register_netdev(loopback_dev); if (err) panic("loopback: Failed to register netdevice: %d\n", err); -- cgit v1.2.3