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authorWang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>2008-12-08 01:14:16 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-12-08 01:14:16 -0800
commitb74ca3a896b9ab5f952bc440154758e708c48884 (patch)
treecc67fc67ddd6ac20e25b1060ab633a4d5c4e6ee8 /drivers/net/tokenring
parent5a001a070e032bea1be563b13ebf9819cd5e54d4 (diff)
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: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/tokenring')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c b/drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c
index e7a944657cf..43853e3b210 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c
@@ -296,8 +296,9 @@ static int __devinit xl_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
} ;
/*
- * Allowing init_trdev to allocate the dev->priv structure will align xl_private
- * on a 32 bytes boundary which we need for the rx/tx descriptors
+ * Allowing init_trdev to allocate the private data will align
+ * xl_private on a 32 bytes boundary which we need for the rx/tx
+ * descriptors
*/
dev = alloc_trdev(sizeof(struct xl_private)) ;