netdev - sock_valbool_flag is required by VMware

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Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:52:22 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: sock_valbool_flag is required by VMware

Hi,

this commit:
    [NET]: Move sock_valbool_flag to socket.c

    The sock_valbool_flag() helper is used in setsockopt to
    set or reset some flag on the sock. This helper is required
    in the net/socket.c only, so move it there.

    Besides, patch two places in sys_setsockopt() that repeat
    this helper functionality manually.

    Since this is not a bugfix, but a trivial cleanup, I
    prepared this patch against net-2.6.25, but it also
    applies (with a single offset) to the latest net-2.6.

breaks vmware module compilation, since it uses sock_valbool_flag(). Is this
their business (and they should use sock_set_flag/sock_reset_flag) or should
this be reverted?

thanks,
-- 
Jiri Slaby (jirislaby@...il.com)
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
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