tree 02d0426143d9a89548a1e6f5a0d0e2ef8448db49
parent 0e05498e9eae16a6d8c86543e77930ec152e655e
author Jon Paul Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> 1445518297 -0400
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1445694990 -0700

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>