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[NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 2.

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Doing this makes loopback.c a better example of how to do a
simple network device, and it removes the special case
single static allocation of a struct net_device, hopefully
making maintenance easier.

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>
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Daniel Lezcano 2007-09-25 19:18:04 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent de3cb747ff
commit 854d8363f3
1 changed files with 44 additions and 28 deletions
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@ -202,44 +202,60 @@ static const struct ethtool_ops loopback_ethtool_ops = {
* The loopback device is special. There is only one instance and
* it is statically allocated. Don't do this for other devices.
*/
struct net_device __loopback_dev = {
.name = "lo",
.get_stats = &get_stats,
.mtu = (16 * 1024) + 20 + 20 + 12,
.hard_start_xmit = loopback_xmit,
.hard_header = eth_header,
.hard_header_cache = eth_header_cache,
.header_cache_update = eth_header_cache_update,
.hard_header_len = ETH_HLEN, /* 14 */
.addr_len = ETH_ALEN, /* 6 */
.tx_queue_len = 0,
.type = ARPHRD_LOOPBACK, /* 0x0001*/
.rebuild_header = eth_rebuild_header,
.flags = IFF_LOOPBACK,
.features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST
static void loopback_setup(struct net_device *dev)
{
dev->get_stats = &get_stats;
dev->mtu = (16 * 1024) + 20 + 20 + 12;
dev->hard_start_xmit = loopback_xmit;
dev->hard_header = eth_header;
dev->hard_header_cache = eth_header_cache;
dev->header_cache_update = eth_header_cache_update;
dev->hard_header_len = ETH_HLEN; /* 14 */
dev->addr_len = ETH_ALEN; /* 6 */
dev->tx_queue_len = 0;
dev->type = ARPHRD_LOOPBACK; /* 0x0001*/
dev->rebuild_header = eth_rebuild_header;
dev->flags = IFF_LOOPBACK;
dev->features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST
#ifdef LOOPBACK_TSO
| NETIF_F_TSO
| NETIF_F_TSO
#endif
| NETIF_F_NO_CSUM | NETIF_F_HIGHDMA
| NETIF_F_LLTX
| NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL,
.ethtool_ops = &loopback_ethtool_ops,
.nd_net = &init_net,
};
struct net_device *loopback_dev = &__loopback_dev;
| NETIF_F_NO_CSUM
| NETIF_F_HIGHDMA
| NETIF_F_LLTX
| NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL,
dev->ethtool_ops = &loopback_ethtool_ops;
}
/* Setup and register the loopback device. */
static int __init loopback_init(void)
{
int err = register_netdev(loopback_dev);
struct net_device *dev;
int err;
err = -ENOMEM;
dev = alloc_netdev(0, "lo", loopback_setup);
if (!dev)
goto out;
err = register_netdev(dev);
if (err)
goto out_free_netdev;
err = 0;
loopback_dev = dev;
out:
if (err)
panic("loopback: Failed to register netdevice: %d\n", err);
return err;
};
module_init(loopback_init);
out_free_netdev:
free_netdev(dev);
goto out;
}
fs_initcall(loopback_init);
struct net_device *loopback_dev;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(loopback_dev);