[NET]: Rework dev_base via list_head (v3)
Cleanup of dev_base list use, with the aim to simplify making device
list per-namespace. In almost every occasion, use of dev_base variable
and dev->next pointer could be easily replaced by for_each_netdev
loop. A few most complicated places were converted to using
first_netdev()/next_netdev().
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
index 597c800..342ca8d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
if (dev_change_flags(&loopback_dev, loopback_dev.flags | IFF_UP) < 0)
printk(KERN_ERR "IP-Config: Failed to open %s\n", loopback_dev.name);
- for (dev = dev_base; dev; dev = dev->next) {
+ for_each_netdev(dev) {
if (dev == &loopback_dev)
continue;
if (user_dev_name[0] ? !strcmp(dev->name, user_dev_name) :