[Devel] Re: [PATCH 1/9] network namespaces: core and device list

[Dave Hansen]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 18:48 +0400, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
> 
>         /* Can survive without statistics */
>         stats = kmalloc(sizeof(struct net_device_stats), GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (stats) {
>                 memset(stats, 0, sizeof(struct net_device_stats));
> -               loopback_dev.priv = stats;
> -               loopback_dev.get_stats = &get_stats;
> +               dev->priv = stats;
> +               dev->get_stats = &get_stats;
>         } 

With this much surgery it might be best to start using things that have
come along since this code was touched last, like kzalloc().

-- Dave