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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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@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ int ipv6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct packet_type *pt
*
* BTW, when we send a packet for our own local address on a
* non-loopback interface (e.g. ethX), it is being delivered
* via the loopback interface (lo) here; skb->dev = &loopback_dev.
* via the loopback interface (lo) here; skb->dev = loopback_dev.
* It, however, should be considered as if it is being
* arrived via the sending interface (ethX), because of the
* nature of scoping architecture. --yoshfuji