[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>
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Mitch Williams 2005-11-09 10:34:45 -08:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 1e2e565965
commit c2373ee989
2 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions

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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 *);

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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);