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netdevice: Kill netdev->priv

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This is the last shoot of this series.
After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing
"priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs.

Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly.
If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv()
instead.
If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use
netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private
data.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Wang Chen
2008-12-08 01:14:16 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 5a001a070e
commit b74ca3a896
18 changed files with 24 additions and 29 deletions
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net/core/dev.c
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@@ -4378,12 +4378,6 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mq(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
dev->num_tx_queues = queue_count;
dev->real_num_tx_queues = queue_count;
if (sizeof_priv) {
dev->priv = ((char *)dev +
((sizeof(struct net_device) + NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST)
& ~NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST));
}
dev->gso_max_size = GSO_MAX_SIZE;
netdev_init_queues(dev);