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authorMitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>2005-11-09 13:34:45 -0500
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2005-11-13 14:48:18 -0500
commitc2373ee98982a1c842dfb213c398f388d4227e63 (patch)
tree78b02f37f11503c0b2c85da1fb1811f430e8c163
parent1e2e5659656b8b9bd9fa4714355d91282cb74178 (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.h1
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 936f8b76114e..4fceff0e59ec 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -684,6 +684,7 @@ extern int netif_rx(struct sk_buff *skb);
684extern int netif_rx_ni(struct sk_buff *skb); 684extern int netif_rx_ni(struct sk_buff *skb);
685#define HAVE_NETIF_RECEIVE_SKB 1 685#define HAVE_NETIF_RECEIVE_SKB 1
686extern int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb); 686extern int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
687extern int dev_valid_name(const char *name);
687extern int dev_ioctl(unsigned int cmd, void __user *); 688extern int dev_ioctl(unsigned int cmd, void __user *);
688extern int dev_ethtool(struct ifreq *); 689extern int dev_ethtool(struct ifreq *);
689extern unsigned dev_get_flags(const struct net_device *); 690extern unsigned dev_get_flags(const struct net_device *);
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 0b48e294aafe..94e642ee6e2b 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
626 * Network device names need to be valid file names to 626 * Network device names need to be valid file names to
627 * to allow sysfs to work 627 * to allow sysfs to work
628 */ 628 */
629static int dev_valid_name(const char *name) 629int dev_valid_name(const char *name)
630{ 630{
631 return !(*name == '\0' 631 return !(*name == '\0'
632 || !strcmp(name, ".") 632 || !strcmp(name, ".")
@@ -3269,6 +3269,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dev_get_by_index);
3269EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dev_get_by_name); 3269EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dev_get_by_name);
3270EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dev_remove_pack); 3270EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dev_remove_pack);
3271EXPORT_SYMBOL(__skb_linearize); 3271EXPORT_SYMBOL(__skb_linearize);
3272EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_valid_name);
3272EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_add_pack); 3273EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_add_pack);
3273EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_alloc_name); 3274EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_alloc_name);
3274EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_close); 3275EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_close);