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

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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>
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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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include/linux/etherdevice.h
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@ -29,15 +29,19 @@
#include <linux/random.h>
#ifdef __KERNEL__
extern int eth_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
unsigned short type, void *daddr,
void *saddr, unsigned len);
extern int eth_rebuild_header(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern __be16 eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
extern void eth_header_cache_update(struct hh_cache *hh, struct net_device *dev,
unsigned char * haddr);
extern int eth_header_cache(struct neighbour *neigh,
struct hh_cache *hh);
extern const struct header_ops eth_header_ops;
extern int eth_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
unsigned short type,
const void *daddr, const void *saddr, unsigned len);
extern int eth_rebuild_header(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern int eth_header_parse(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned char *haddr);
extern int eth_header_cache(const struct neighbour *neigh, struct hh_cache *hh);
extern void eth_header_cache_update(struct hh_cache *hh,
const struct net_device *dev,
const unsigned char *haddr);
extern struct net_device *alloc_etherdev_mq(int sizeof_priv, unsigned int queue_count);
#define alloc_etherdev(sizeof_priv) alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof_priv, 1)