From de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
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 <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>
---
 include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'include')

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index cf89ce677e4..baa915f0d28 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ struct packet_type {
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
 #include <linux/notifier.h>
 
-extern struct net_device		loopback_dev;		/* The loopback */
+extern struct net_device		*loopback_dev;		/* The loopback */
 extern rwlock_t				dev_base_lock;		/* Device list lock */
 
 
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