On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:46:43 -0700
Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 18:48 +0400, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
> >
> > /* Can survive without statistics */
> > stats = kmalloc(sizeof(struct net_device_stats), GFP_KERNEL);
> > if (stats) {
> > memset(stats, 0, sizeof(struct net_device_stats));
> > - loopback_dev.priv = stats;
> > - loopback_dev.get_stats = &get_stats;
> > + dev->priv = stats;
> > + dev->get_stats = &get_stats;
> > }
>
> With this much surgery it might be best to start using things that have
> come along since this code was touched last, like kzalloc().
>
>
If you are going to make the loopback device dynamic, it MUST use
alloc_netdev().
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