Commit b74ca3a8 authored by Wang Chen's avatar Wang Chen Committed by David S. Miller
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netdevice: Kill netdev->priv 



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: default avatarWang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 5a001a07

Documentation/networking/driver.txt

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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Transmit path guidelines: 
	static int drv_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,

		   		       struct net_device *dev)

	{

		struct drv *dp = dev->priv;

		struct drv *dp = netdev_priv(dev);



		lock_tx(dp);

		...

Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt

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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ There are routines in net_init.c to handle the common cases of 
alloc_etherdev, alloc_netdev.  These reserve extra space for driver

private data which gets freed when the network device is freed. If

separately allocated data is attached to the network device

(dev->priv) then it is up to the module exit handler to free that.

(netdev_priv(dev)) then it is up to the module exit handler to free that.



MTU

===

drivers/net/3c501.h

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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static const struct ethtool_ops netdev_ethtool_ops; 
static int el_debug = EL_DEBUG;



/*

 *	Board-specific info in dev->priv.

 *	Board-specific info in netdev_priv(dev).

 */



struct net_local

drivers/net/atp.c

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@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ static unsigned short __init eeprom_op(long ioaddr, u32 cmd) 
   registers that "should" only need to be set once at boot, so that

   there is non-reboot way to recover if something goes wrong.



   This is an attachable device: if there is no dev->priv entry then it wasn't

   This is an attachable device: if there is no private entry then it wasn't

   probed for at boot-time, and we need to probe for it again.

   */

static int net_open(struct net_device *dev)

drivers/net/eexpress.c

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@@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ static void eexp_hw_tx_pio(struct net_device *dev, unsigned short *buf, 
/*

 * Sanity check the suspected EtherExpress card

 * Read hardware address, reset card, size memory and initialize buffer

 * memory pointers. These are held in dev->priv, in case someone has more

 * memory pointers. These are held in netdev_priv(), in case someone has more

 * than one card in a machine.

 */

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