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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 /net/decnet/dn_dev.c
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 'net/decnet/dn_dev.c')
-rw-r--r--net/decnet/dn_dev.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
index fa24614b5a3..bcaf4c5aa68 100644
--- a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
+++ b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
@@ -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;
}