[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>
git-mirror · Nov 13, 2005 · c2373ee · c2373ee
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diff --git 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
@@ -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);