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| author | Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> | 2010-07-09 09:12:41 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-07-09 17:41:57 -0700 |
| commit | d77535162e736c47978d5c01469c56e1781dc91b (patch) | |
| tree | 7210d55197b283c72bb8c74a0aeb8cd386b21a74 | |
| parent | 3cfde79c6c7c8002375c4a8e5be7f602fbb9675d (diff) | |
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net: Document that dev_get_stats() returns the given pointer
Document that dev_get_stats() returns the same stats pointer it was
given. Remove const qualification from the returned pointer since the
caller may do what it likes with that structure.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 12 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 17e95e37aed9..c4fedf000541 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -2130,8 +2130,8 @@ extern void netdev_features_change(struct net_device *dev); /* Load a device via the kmod */ extern void dev_load(struct net *net, const char *name); extern void dev_mcast_init(void); -extern const struct rtnl_link_stats64 *dev_get_stats(struct net_device *dev, - struct rtnl_link_stats64 *storage); +extern struct rtnl_link_stats64 *dev_get_stats(struct net_device *dev, + struct rtnl_link_stats64 *storage); extern void dev_txq_stats_fold(const struct net_device *dev, struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats); diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 79ee26ef5095..e2b9fa2c917e 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -5323,13 +5323,13 @@ static void netdev_stats_to_stats64(struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats64, * @dev: device to get statistics from * @storage: place to store stats * - * Get network statistics from device. The device driver may provide - * its own method by setting dev->netdev_ops->get_stats64 or - * dev->netdev_ops->get_stats; otherwise the internal statistics - * structure is used. + * Get network statistics from device. Return @storage. + * The device driver may provide its own method by setting + * dev->netdev_ops->get_stats64 or dev->netdev_ops->get_stats; + * otherwise the internal statistics structure is used. */ -const struct rtnl_link_stats64 *dev_get_stats(struct net_device *dev, - struct rtnl_link_stats64 *storage) +struct rtnl_link_stats64 *dev_get_stats(struct net_device *dev, + struct rtnl_link_stats64 *storage) { const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops; |