can: introduce CAN midlayer private and allocate it automatically
This patch introduces the CAN midlayer private structure ("struct can_ml_priv") which should be used to hold protocol specific per device data structures. For now it's only member is "struct can_dev_rcv_lists". The CAN midlayer private is allocated via alloc_netdev()'s private and assigned to "struct net_device::ml_priv" during device creation. This is done transparently for CAN drivers using alloc_candev(). The slcan, vcan and vxcan drivers which are not using alloc_candev() have been adopted manually. The memory layout of the netdev_priv allocated via alloc_candev() will looke like this: +-------------------------+ | driver's priv | +-------------------------+ | struct can_ml_priv | +-------------------------+ | array of struct sk_buff | +-------------------------+ Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
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