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authorDaniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>2007-09-25 19:16:28 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-10-10 16:52:14 -0700
commitde3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5 (patch)
treefe79764b8093843934c9b9f82f573e7a92cef406 /include/linux/netdevice.h
parent556829657397b9b05baec6691ead4e22ee8d1567 (diff)
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index cf89ce677e41..baa915f0d285 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ struct packet_type {
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
-extern struct net_device loopback_dev; /* The loopback */
+extern struct net_device *loopback_dev; /* The loopback */
extern rwlock_t dev_base_lock; /* Device list lock */