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| author | Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com> | 2005-11-09 10:34:45 -0800 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2005-11-13 14:48:18 -0500 |
| commit | c2373ee98982a1c842dfb213c398f388d4227e63 (patch) | |
| tree | 78b02f37f11503c0b2c85da1fb1811f430e8c163 | |
| parent | 1e2e5659656b8b9bd9fa4714355d91282cb74178 (diff) | |
[PATCH] net: make dev_valid_name public
dev_valid_name() is a useful function. Make it public.
Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 936f8b76114..4fceff0e59e 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -684,6 +684,7 @@ extern int netif_rx(struct sk_buff *skb); extern int netif_rx_ni(struct sk_buff *skb); #define HAVE_NETIF_RECEIVE_SKB 1 extern int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb); +extern int dev_valid_name(const char *name); extern int dev_ioctl(unsigned int cmd, void __user *); extern int dev_ethtool(struct ifreq *); extern unsigned dev_get_flags(const struct net_device *); diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 0b48e294aaf..94e642ee6e2 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ struct net_device * dev_get_by_flags(unsigned short if_flags, unsigned short mas * Network device names need to be valid file names to * to allow sysfs to work */ -static int dev_valid_name(const char *name) +int dev_valid_name(const char *name) { return !(*name == '\0' || !strcmp(name, ".") @@ -3269,6 +3269,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dev_get_by_index); EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dev_get_by_name); EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dev_remove_pack); EXPORT_SYMBOL(__skb_linearize); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_valid_name); EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_add_pack); EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_alloc_name); EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_close); |