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* [PATCH] IP6 Fragment: Export ip6_fragment function
@ 2018-02-28 21:28 Sheena Mira-ato
  2018-03-01  3:23 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sheena Mira-ato @ 2018-02-28 21:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: Sheena Mira-ato

Export the ip6_fragment function so other loadable kernel
modules can access it.  The ipv4 version is already
exported.
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 997c7f19ad62..8604031f0a93 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -887,6 +887,7 @@ int ip6_fragment(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	kfree_skb(skb);
 	return err;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ip6_fragment);
 
 static inline int ip6_rt_check(const struct rt6key *rt_key,
 			       const struct in6_addr *fl_addr,
-- 
2.16.2

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* Re: [PATCH] IP6 Fragment: Export ip6_fragment function
  2018-02-28 21:28 [PATCH] IP6 Fragment: Export ip6_fragment function Sheena Mira-ato
@ 2018-03-01  3:23 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2018-03-01  3:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: sheena.mira-ato; +Cc: netdev

From: Sheena Mira-ato <sheena.mira-ato@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Date: Thu,  1 Mar 2018 10:28:40 +1300

> Export the ip6_fragment function so other loadable kernel
> modules can access it.  The ipv4 version is already
> exported.

Missing an appropriate signoff.

And there is no reason to export a function until there is
an in-tree user.

We do not export symbols for the sake of out-of-tree code,
sorry.

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