[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c
index 5b24c65..d824819 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/arp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@
neigh->parms = neigh_parms_clone(parms);
rcu_read_unlock();
- if (dev->hard_header == NULL) {
+ if (!dev->header_ops) {
neigh->nud_state = NUD_NOARP;
neigh->ops = &arp_direct_ops;
neigh->output = neigh->ops->queue_xmit;
@@ -310,10 +310,12 @@
neigh->nud_state = NUD_NOARP;
memcpy(neigh->ha, dev->broadcast, dev->addr_len);
}
- if (dev->hard_header_cache)
+
+ if (dev->header_ops->cache)
neigh->ops = &arp_hh_ops;
else
neigh->ops = &arp_generic_ops;
+
if (neigh->nud_state&NUD_VALID)
neigh->output = neigh->ops->connected_output;
else