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netdevice: Kill netdev->priv

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This is the last shoot of this series.
After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing
"priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs.

Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly.
If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv()
instead.
If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use
netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private
data.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Wang Chen
2008-12-08 01:14:16 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 5a001a070e
commit b74ca3a896
18 changed files with 24 additions and 29 deletions
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drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c
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@ -296,8 +296,9 @@ static int __devinit xl_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
} ;
/*
* Allowing init_trdev to allocate the dev->priv structure will align xl_private
* on a 32 bytes boundary which we need for the rx/tx descriptors
* Allowing init_trdev to allocate the private data will align
* xl_private on a 32 bytes boundary which we need for the rx/tx
* descriptors
*/
dev = alloc_trdev(sizeof(struct xl_private)) ;