[PATCH 2.5.70+] expose alloc_netdev for use by drivers.

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>]

Several network drivers (tun, bridge, slip, vlan, ...) need to allocate private 
data structures
in a like manner to ether_allocdev.  This exposes the net_init hook for them to 
use.

diff -Nru a/drivers/net/net_init.c b/drivers/net/net_init.c
--- a/drivers/net/net_init.c    Mon Jun  9 11:42:25 2003
+++ b/drivers/net/net_init.c    Mon Jun  9 11:42:25 2003
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
 */
 
 
-static struct net_device *alloc_netdev(int sizeof_priv, const char *mask,
+struct net_device *alloc_netdev(int sizeof_priv, const char *mask,
                                       void (*setup)(struct net_device *))
 {
        struct net_device *dev;
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@
 
        return dev;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_netdev);
 
 static struct net_device *init_alloc_dev(int sizeof_priv)
 {
diff -Nru a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
--- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h       Mon Jun  9 11:42:25 2003
+++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h       Mon Jun  9 11:42:25 2003
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
                                         unsigned char *haddr);
 extern struct net_device *init_etherdev(struct net_device *dev, int 
sizeof_priv);
 extern struct net_device *alloc_etherdev(int sizeof_priv);
-
 static inline void eth_copy_and_sum (struct sk_buff *dest, unsigned char *src, 
int len, int base)
 {
        memcpy (dest->data, src, len);
diff -Nru a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h Mon Jun  9 11:42:25 2003
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h Mon Jun  9 11:42:25 2003
@@ -815,6 +815,8 @@
 extern void            fc_setup(struct net_device *dev);
 extern void            fc_freedev(struct net_device *dev);
 /* Support for loadable net-drivers */
+extern struct net_device *alloc_netdev(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
+                                      void (*setup)(struct net_device *));
 extern int             register_netdev(struct net_device *dev);
 extern void            unregister_netdev(struct net_device *dev);
 /* Functions used for multicast support */