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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-09 01:40:57 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -0700 |
| commit | 3b04ddde02cf1b6f14f2697da5c20eca5715017f (patch) | |
| tree | 9da1341a5a399a507b5ea6bf5a3047506b8d8f8f /include/linux/etherdevice.h | |
| parent | b95cce3576813ac3f86bafa6b5daaaaf7574b0fe (diff) | |
| download | lwn-3b04ddde02cf1b6f14f2697da5c20eca5715017f.tar.gz lwn-3b04ddde02cf1b6f14f2697da5c20eca5715017f.zip | |
[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/etherdevice.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/etherdevice.h | 20 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h index 6cdb97365e47..b7558ec81ed5 100644 --- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h @@ -29,15 +29,19 @@ #include <linux/random.h> #ifdef __KERNEL__ -extern int eth_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, - unsigned short type, void *daddr, - void *saddr, unsigned len); -extern int eth_rebuild_header(struct sk_buff *skb); extern __be16 eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev); -extern void eth_header_cache_update(struct hh_cache *hh, struct net_device *dev, - unsigned char * haddr); -extern int eth_header_cache(struct neighbour *neigh, - struct hh_cache *hh); +extern const struct header_ops eth_header_ops; + +extern int eth_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, + unsigned short type, + const void *daddr, const void *saddr, unsigned len); +extern int eth_rebuild_header(struct sk_buff *skb); +extern int eth_header_parse(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned char *haddr); +extern int eth_header_cache(const struct neighbour *neigh, struct hh_cache *hh); +extern void eth_header_cache_update(struct hh_cache *hh, + const struct net_device *dev, + const unsigned char *haddr); + extern struct net_device *alloc_etherdev_mq(int sizeof_priv, unsigned int queue_count); #define alloc_etherdev(sizeof_priv) alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof_priv, 1) |