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Commit c2373ee9 authored by Mitch Williams's avatar Mitch Williams Committed by John W. Linville
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[PATCH] net: make dev_valid_name public 



dev_valid_name() is a useful function.  Make it public.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 1e2e5659

include/linux/netdevice.h

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@@ -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 *);

net/core/dev.c

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@@ -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);