[net-2.6.24][patch 2/2] Dynamically allocate the loopback device

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:45:11 +0200
dlezcano at fr.ibm.com wrote:

> From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano at fr.ibm.com>
> 
> Doing this makes loopback.c a better example of how to do a
> simple network device, and it removes the special case
> single static allocation of a struct net_device, hopefully
> making maintenance easier.
> 

What is before/after code and data size, does it make code smaller?

>  
> -module_init(loopback_init);
> +fs_initcall(loopback_init);
>  
> +struct net_device *loopback_dev;
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(loopback_dev);





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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at linux-foundation.org>