[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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 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);
 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 *);