[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/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
index 7d18cac..9149fc2 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
*
* BTW, when we send a packet for our own local address on a
* non-loopback interface (e.g. ethX), it is being delivered
- * via the loopback interface (lo) here; skb->dev = &loopback_dev.
+ * via the loopback interface (lo) here; skb->dev = loopback_dev.
* It, however, should be considered as if it is being
* arrived via the sending interface (ethX), because of the
* nature of scoping architecture. --yoshfuji