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| author | Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> | 2007-09-25 19:16:28 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-10 16:52:14 -0700 |
| commit | de3cb747ffac5f2a4a6bb156e7e2fd5229e688e5 (patch) | |
| tree | fe79764b8093843934c9b9f82f573e7a92cef406 /net/ipv6/ip6_input.c | |
| parent | 556829657397b9b05baec6691ead4e22ee8d1567 (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 'net/ipv6/ip6_input.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/ip6_input.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c index 7d18cac3f11..9149fc23975 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c @@ -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 |