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Message-ID: <4C7D89CF.3040307@candelatech.com>
Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:01:35 -0700
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next] ipv6:  Export in6addr_any for use by modules.

On 08/31/2010 10:08 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> Some upcoming cifs code, could make use of this, at least.

Actually, it's probably not worth the dependency on ipv6
for this small bit of code savings, so at least for cifs,
this probably isn't useful.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear<greearb@...delatech.com>
> ---
> :100644 100644 ab70a3f... 735989a... M	net/ipv6/addrconf.c
>   net/ipv6/addrconf.c |    1 +
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> index ab70a3f..735989a 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> @@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ static struct ipv6_devconf ipv6_devconf_dflt __read_mostly = {
>
>   /* IPv6 Wildcard Address and Loopback Address defined by RFC2553 */
>   const struct in6_addr in6addr_any = IN6ADDR_ANY_INIT;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(in6addr_any);
>   const struct in6_addr in6addr_loopback = IN6ADDR_LOOPBACK_INIT;
>   const struct in6_addr in6addr_linklocal_allnodes = IN6ADDR_LINKLOCAL_ALLNODES_INIT;
>   const struct in6_addr in6addr_linklocal_allrouters = IN6ADDR_LINKLOCAL_ALLROUTERS_INIT;


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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