neigh: Add infrastructure for allocating device neigh privates.

netdev->neigh_priv_len records the private area length.

This will trigger for neigh_table objects which set tbl->entry_size
to zero, and the first instances of this will be forthcoming.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David Miller
2011-07-25 00:01:25 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 5b8b0060cb
commit 596b9b68ef
4 changed files with 15 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -1080,6 +1080,7 @@ struct net_device {
unsigned char perm_addr[MAX_ADDR_LEN]; /* permanent hw address */
unsigned char addr_assign_type; /* hw address assignment type */
unsigned char addr_len; /* hardware address length */
unsigned char neigh_priv_len;
unsigned short dev_id; /* for shared network cards */
spinlock_t addr_list_lock;