TononixOS/ubports_kernel_google_msm
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Releases Wiki Activity

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

Browse Source 
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>
This commit is contained in:
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
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

4
net/decnet/dn_dev.c
View File

@@ -869,10 +869,10 @@ last_chance:
rv = dn_dev_get_first(dev, addr);
read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
dev_put(dev);
if (rv == 0 || dev == &loopback_dev)
if (rv == 0 || dev == loopback_dev)
return rv;
}
dev = &loopback_dev;
dev = loopback_dev;
dev_hold(dev);
goto last_chance;
}