[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>
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index cf89ce6..baa915f 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
-extern struct net_device loopback_dev; /* The loopback */
+extern struct net_device *loopback_dev; /* The loopback */
extern rwlock_t dev_base_lock; /* Device list lock */