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[NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 1.

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This patch replaces all occurences to the static variable
loopback_dev to a pointer loopback_dev. That provides the
mindless, trivial, uninteressting change part for the dynamic
allocation for the loopback.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Daniel Lezcano
2007-09-25 19:16:28 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 5568296573
commit de3cb747ff
16 changed files with 55 additions and 53 deletions
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net/ipv6/addrconf.c
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@@ -2410,7 +2410,7 @@ static int addrconf_ifdown(struct net_device *dev, int how)
ASSERT_RTNL();
if (dev == &loopback_dev && how == 1)
if (dev == loopback_dev && how == 1)
how = 0;
rt6_ifdown(dev);
@@ -4212,16 +4212,19 @@ int __init addrconf_init(void)
* device and it being up should be removed.
*/
rtnl_lock();
if (!ipv6_add_dev(&loopback_dev))
if (!ipv6_add_dev(loopback_dev))
err = -ENOMEM;
rtnl_unlock();
if (err)
return err;
ip6_null_entry.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(&loopback_dev);
ip6_null_entry.u.dst.dev = loopback_dev;
ip6_null_entry.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(loopback_dev);
#ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES
ip6_prohibit_entry.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(&loopback_dev);
ip6_blk_hole_entry.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(&loopback_dev);
ip6_prohibit_entry.u.dst.dev = loopback_dev;
ip6_prohibit_entry.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(loopback_dev);
ip6_blk_hole_entry.u.dst.dev = loopback_dev;
ip6_blk_hole_entry.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(loopback_dev);
#endif
register_netdevice_notifier(&ipv6_dev_notf);
@@ -4276,7 +4279,7 @@ void __exit addrconf_cleanup(void)
continue;
addrconf_ifdown(dev, 1);
}
addrconf_ifdown(&loopback_dev, 2);
addrconf_ifdown(loopback_dev, 2);
/*
* Check hash table.