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author | Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2008-12-08 04:14:16 -0500 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-12-08 04:14:16 -0500 |
commit | b74ca3a896b9ab5f952bc440154758e708c48884 (patch) | |
tree | cc67fc67ddd6ac20e25b1060ab633a4d5c4e6ee8 /Documentation/networking | |
parent | 5a001a070e032bea1be563b13ebf9819cd5e54d4 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/driver.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/driver.txt b/Documentation/networking/driver.txt index ea72d2e66ca8..03283daa64fe 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/driver.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/driver.txt | |||
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Transmit path guidelines: | |||
13 | static int drv_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, | 13 | static int drv_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, |
14 | struct net_device *dev) | 14 | struct net_device *dev) |
15 | { | 15 | { |
16 | struct drv *dp = dev->priv; | 16 | struct drv *dp = netdev_priv(dev); |
17 | 17 | ||
18 | lock_tx(dp); | 18 | lock_tx(dp); |
19 | ... | 19 | ... |
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt index d0f71fc7f782..a2ab6a0b116d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt | |||
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ There are routines in net_init.c to handle the common cases of | |||
18 | alloc_etherdev, alloc_netdev. These reserve extra space for driver | 18 | alloc_etherdev, alloc_netdev. These reserve extra space for driver |
19 | private data which gets freed when the network device is freed. If | 19 | private data which gets freed when the network device is freed. If |
20 | separately allocated data is attached to the network device | 20 | separately 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 | ||
23 | MTU | 23 | MTU |
24 | === | 24 | === |