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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 /net/ipv4/arp.c | |
| 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 'net/ipv4/arp.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/arp.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c index 5b24c65b13c6..d8248198bcd7 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/arp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ static int arp_constructor(struct neighbour *neigh) neigh->parms = neigh_parms_clone(parms); rcu_read_unlock(); - if (dev->hard_header == NULL) { + if (!dev->header_ops) { neigh->nud_state = NUD_NOARP; neigh->ops = &arp_direct_ops; neigh->output = neigh->ops->queue_xmit; @@ -310,10 +310,12 @@ static int arp_constructor(struct neighbour *neigh) neigh->nud_state = NUD_NOARP; memcpy(neigh->ha, dev->broadcast, dev->addr_len); } - if (dev->hard_header_cache) + + if (dev->header_ops->cache) neigh->ops = &arp_hh_ops; else neigh->ops = &arp_generic_ops; + if (neigh->nud_state&NUD_VALID) neigh->output = neigh->ops->connected_output; else |