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authorWang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>2008-12-08 04:14:16 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-12-08 04:14:16 -0500
commitb74ca3a896b9ab5f952bc440154758e708c48884 (patch)
treecc67fc67ddd6ac20e25b1060ab633a4d5c4e6ee8 /Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
parent5a001a070e032bea1be563b13ebf9819cd5e54d4 (diff)
netdevice: Kill netdev->priv
This is the last shoot of this series. After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing "priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs. Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly. If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv() instead. If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private data. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ There are routines in net_init.c to handle the common cases of
18alloc_etherdev, alloc_netdev. These reserve extra space for driver 18alloc_etherdev, alloc_netdev. These reserve extra space for driver
19private data which gets freed when the network device is freed. If 19private data which gets freed when the network device is freed. If
20separately allocated data is attached to the network device 20separately allocated data is attached to the network device
21(dev->priv) then it is up to the module exit handler to free that. 21(netdev_priv(dev)) then it is up to the module exit handler to free that.
22 22
23MTU 23MTU
24=== 24===