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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
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include/linux/netdevice.h
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@ -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 */