Kory Maincent wrote:
> This declaration was added to the header to be called from ethtool.
> ethtool is separated from core for code organization but it is not really
> a separate entity, it controls very core things.
> As ethtool is an internal stuff it is not wise to have it in netdevice.h.
> Move the declaration to net/core/dev.h instead.
>
> Remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL call as ethtool can not be built as a module.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
At this point this function does not need to be defined in a header at
all. But patch 12 will change that.
net/ethtool can be built-in or not, but cannot be built as module, so
no need for the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL indeed.
> ---
>
> Change in v10:
> - New patch.
> ---
> include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 ---
> net/core/dev.h | 4 ++++
> net/core/dev_ioctl.c | 1 -
> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> index d45f330d083d..9a4b92b49fac 100644
> --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
> +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> @@ -3901,9 +3901,6 @@ int generic_hwtstamp_get_lower(struct net_device *dev,
> int generic_hwtstamp_set_lower(struct net_device *dev,
> struct kernel_hwtstamp_config *kernel_cfg,
> struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
> -int dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib(struct net_device *dev,
> - struct kernel_hwtstamp_config *cfg,
> - struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
> int dev_ethtool(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr, void __user *userdata);
> unsigned int dev_get_flags(const struct net_device *);
> int __dev_change_flags(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int flags,
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.h b/net/core/dev.h
> index 8572d2c8dc4a..39819fffece7 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.h
> +++ b/net/core/dev.h
> @@ -167,4 +167,8 @@ static inline void dev_xmit_recursion_dec(void)
> __this_cpu_dec(softnet_data.xmit.recursion);
> }
>
> +int dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib(struct net_device *dev,
> + struct kernel_hwtstamp_config *cfg,
> + struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
> +
> #endif
> diff --git a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
> index 9a66cf5015f2..b9719ed3c3fd 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
> @@ -363,7 +363,6 @@ int dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib(struct net_device *dev,
>
> return 0;
> }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib);
>
> static int dev_set_hwtstamp(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr)
> {
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>