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| author | Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me> | 2025-07-17 10:23:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2025-07-18 17:27:46 -0700 |
| commit | af1d017377c1c1931bfb898e719ab712cf79f944 (patch) | |
| tree | b68aa226d019f1e2e4e57dcdecd2aec19d820e90 /net/core/dev.c | |
| parent | ffea1168346120df9417fcafd8f3a1c93033ae34 (diff) | |
net: s/dev_get_mac_address/netif_get_mac_address/
Commit cc34acd577f1 ("docs: net: document new locking reality")
introduced netif_ vs dev_ function semantics: the former expects locked
netdev, the latter takes care of the locking. We don't strictly
follow this semantics on either side, but there are more dev_xxx handlers
now that don't fit. Rename them to netif_xxx where appropriate.
netif_get_mac_address is used only by tun/tap, so move it into
NETDEV_INTERNAL namespace.
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717172333.1288349-3-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 4979a9197b18..d71f03874057 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -9765,7 +9765,7 @@ int netif_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr_storage *ss, DECLARE_RWSEM(dev_addr_sem); /* "sa" is a true struct sockaddr with limited "sa_data" member. */ -int dev_get_mac_address(struct sockaddr *sa, struct net *net, char *dev_name) +int netif_get_mac_address(struct sockaddr *sa, struct net *net, char *dev_name) { size_t size = sizeof(sa->sa_data_min); struct net_device *dev; @@ -9791,7 +9791,7 @@ unlock: up_read(&dev_addr_sem); return ret; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_mac_address); +EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(netif_get_mac_address, "NETDEV_INTERNAL"); int netif_change_carrier(struct net_device *dev, bool new_carrier) { |