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>
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