This patch removes the old method of allocating the per device protocol specific memory via a netdevice_notifier. This had the drawback, that the allocation can fail, leading to a lot of null pointer checks in the code. This also makes the live cycle management of this memory quite complicated. This patch switches from the allocating the struct can_dev_rcv_lists in a NETDEV_REGISTER call to using the dev->ml_priv, which is allocated by the driver since the previous patch.
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| @@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ struct can_dev_rcv_lists { · 54 unmodified lines | ||
| 55 | 55 | struct hlist_head rx[RX_MAX]; |
| 56 | 56 | struct hlist_head rx_sff[CAN_SFF_RCV_ARRAY_SZ]; |
| 57 | 57 | struct hlist_head rx_eff[CAN_EFF_RCV_ARRAY_SZ]; |
| 58 | − int remove_on_zero_entries; | |
| 59 | 58 | int entries; |
| 60 | 59 | }; |
| 61 | 60 | |