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authorJon Paul Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>2015-10-22 08:51:37 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-10-24 06:56:30 -0700
commit323019069e8d96d87e9dba51f897060f94999821 (patch)
tree02d0426143d9a89548a1e6f5a0d0e2ef8448db49 /net/tipc/bcast.h
parent0e05498e9eae16a6d8c86543e77930ec152e655e (diff)
tipc: use explicit allocation of broadcast send link
The broadcast link instance (struct tipc_link) used for sending is currently aggregated into struct tipc_bclink. This means that we cannot use the regular tipc_link_create() function for initiating the link, but do instead have to initiate numerous fields directly from the bcast_init() function. We want to reduce dependencies between the broadcast functionality and the inner workings of tipc_link. In this commit, we introduce a new function tipc_bclink_create() to link.c, and allocate the instance of the link separately using this function. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc/bcast.h')
-rw-r--r--net/tipc/bcast.h2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/bcast.h b/net/tipc/bcast.h
index 041935d4ad6d..a378fdde9b7a 100644
--- a/net/tipc/bcast.h
+++ b/net/tipc/bcast.h
@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ struct tipc_msg;
struct tipc_nl_msg;
struct tipc_node_map;
-extern const char tipc_bclink_name[];
-
int tipc_bcast_init(struct net *net);
void tipc_bcast_reinit(struct net *net);
void tipc_bcast_stop(struct net *net);