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authorMitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>2005-11-09 10:34:45 -0800
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2005-11-13 14:48:18 -0500
commitc2373ee98982a1c842dfb213c398f388d4227e63 (patch)
tree78b02f37f11503c0b2c85da1fb1811f430e8c163 /net/core
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
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);