[NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 1.
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>
diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c
index 0e2252f..588092e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/loopback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
* The loopback device is special. There is only one instance and
* it is statically allocated. Don't do this for other devices.
*/
-struct net_device loopback_dev = {
+struct net_device __loopback_dev = {
.name = "lo",
.get_stats = &get_stats,
.mtu = (16 * 1024) + 20 + 20 + 12,
@@ -227,10 +227,12 @@
.nd_net = &init_net,
};
+struct net_device *loopback_dev = &__loopback_dev;
+
/* Setup and register the loopback device. */
static int __init loopback_init(void)
{
- int err = register_netdev(&loopback_dev);
+ int err = register_netdev(loopback_dev);
if (err)
panic("loopback: Failed to register netdevice: %d\n", err);