[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.

Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-09 01:40:57 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent b95cce3576
commit 3b04ddde02
65 changed files with 479 additions and 473 deletions

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@ -221,22 +221,17 @@ static void loopback_dev_free(struct net_device *dev)
}
/*
* The loopback device is special. There is only one instance and
* it is statically allocated. Don't do this for other devices.
* The loopback device is special. There is only one instance.
*/
static void loopback_setup(struct net_device *dev)
{
dev->get_stats = &get_stats;
dev->mtu = (16 * 1024) + 20 + 20 + 12;
dev->hard_start_xmit = loopback_xmit;
dev->hard_header = eth_header;
dev->hard_header_cache = eth_header_cache;
dev->header_cache_update = eth_header_cache_update;
dev->hard_header_len = ETH_HLEN; /* 14 */
dev->addr_len = ETH_ALEN; /* 6 */
dev->tx_queue_len = 0;
dev->type = ARPHRD_LOOPBACK; /* 0x0001*/
dev->rebuild_header = eth_rebuild_header;
dev->flags = IFF_LOOPBACK;
dev->features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST
#ifdef LOOPBACK_TSO
@ -247,6 +242,7 @@ static void loopback_setup(struct net_device *dev)
| NETIF_F_LLTX
| NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL,
dev->ethtool_ops = &loopback_ethtool_ops;
dev->header_ops = &eth_header_ops;
dev->init = loopback_dev_init;
dev->destructor = loopback_dev_free;
}