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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>2007-10-09 01:40:57 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-10-10 16:52:52 -0700
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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 'include/linux/etherdevice.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/etherdevice.h20
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
index 6cdb97365e47..b7558ec81ed5 100644
--- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
@@ -29,15 +29,19 @@
#include <linux/random.h>
#ifdef __KERNEL__
-extern int eth_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
- unsigned short type, void *daddr,
- void *saddr, unsigned len);
-extern int eth_rebuild_header(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern __be16 eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
-extern void eth_header_cache_update(struct hh_cache *hh, struct net_device *dev,
- unsigned char * haddr);
-extern int eth_header_cache(struct neighbour *neigh,
- struct hh_cache *hh);
+extern const struct header_ops eth_header_ops;
+
+extern int eth_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
+ unsigned short type,
+ const void *daddr, const void *saddr, unsigned len);
+extern int eth_rebuild_header(struct sk_buff *skb);
+extern int eth_header_parse(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned char *haddr);
+extern int eth_header_cache(const struct neighbour *neigh, struct hh_cache *hh);
+extern void eth_header_cache_update(struct hh_cache *hh,
+ const struct net_device *dev,
+ const unsigned char *haddr);
+
extern struct net_device *alloc_etherdev_mq(int sizeof_priv, unsigned int queue_count);
#define alloc_etherdev(sizeof_priv) alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof_priv, 1)