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Commit 32301906 authored by Jon Paul Maloy's avatar Jon Paul Maloy Committed by David S. Miller
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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: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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