[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>
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 936f8b7..4fceff0 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -684,6 +684,7 @@
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
index 0b48e29..94e642e 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@
* 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_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);