Commit dffebd2c authored by Narendra K's avatar Narendra K Committed by David S. Miller

doc:networking: Update comment for dev_id field in netdevice.h

This patch updates the comment for 'dev_id' field in
'include/linux/netdevice.h' to reflect the intended
usage of 'dev_id'.

References: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=136992115300526&w=2
References: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=137062569014612&w=2Signed-off-by: default avatarNarendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 32766fff
...@@ -1174,8 +1174,10 @@ struct net_device { ...@@ -1174,8 +1174,10 @@ struct net_device {
unsigned char addr_assign_type; /* hw address assignment type */ unsigned char addr_assign_type; /* hw address assignment type */
unsigned char addr_len; /* hardware address length */ unsigned char addr_len; /* hardware address length */
unsigned char neigh_priv_len; unsigned char neigh_priv_len;
unsigned short dev_id; /* for shared network cards */ unsigned short dev_id; /* Used to differentiate devices
* that share the same link
* layer address
*/
spinlock_t addr_list_lock; spinlock_t addr_list_lock;
struct netdev_hw_addr_list uc; /* Unicast mac addresses */ struct netdev_hw_addr_list uc; /* Unicast mac addresses */
struct netdev_hw_addr_list mc; /* Multicast mac addresses */ struct netdev_hw_addr_list mc; /* Multicast mac addresses */
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