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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-09 01:40:57 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -0700 |
| commit | 3b04ddde02cf1b6f14f2697da5c20eca5715017f (patch) | |
| tree | 9da1341a5a399a507b5ea6bf5a3047506b8d8f8f /drivers/net/loopback.c | |
| parent | b95cce3576813ac3f86bafa6b5daaaaf7574b0fe (diff) | |
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[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/loopback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/loopback.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c index f11120b7a3b2..b6d4ae3ad506 100644 --- a/drivers/net/loopback.c +++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c @@ -221,22 +221,17 @@ static void loopback_dev_free(struct net_device *dev) } /* - * The loopback device is special. There is only one instance and - * it is statically allocated. Don't do this for other devices. + * The loopback device is special. There is only one instance. */ static void loopback_setup(struct net_device *dev) { dev->get_stats = &get_stats; dev->mtu = (16 * 1024) + 20 + 20 + 12; dev->hard_start_xmit = loopback_xmit; - dev->hard_header = eth_header; - dev->hard_header_cache = eth_header_cache; - dev->header_cache_update = eth_header_cache_update; dev->hard_header_len = ETH_HLEN; /* 14 */ dev->addr_len = ETH_ALEN; /* 6 */ dev->tx_queue_len = 0; dev->type = ARPHRD_LOOPBACK; /* 0x0001*/ - dev->rebuild_header = eth_rebuild_header; dev->flags = IFF_LOOPBACK; dev->features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST #ifdef LOOPBACK_TSO @@ -247,6 +242,7 @@ static void loopback_setup(struct net_device *dev) | NETIF_F_LLTX | NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL, dev->ethtool_ops = &loopback_ethtool_ops; + dev->header_ops = ð_header_ops; dev->init = loopback_dev_init; dev->destructor = loopback_dev_free; } |