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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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@@ -341,8 +341,8 @@ static const char *mpoa_device_type_string(char type)
}
/*
* lec device calls this via its dev->priv->lane2_ops->associate_indicator()
* when it sees a TLV in LE_ARP packet.
* lec device calls this via its netdev_priv(dev)->lane2_ops
* ->associate_indicator() when it sees a TLV in LE_ARP packet.
* We fill in the pointer above when we see a LANE2 lec initializing
* See LANE2 spec 3.1.5
*