[openib-general] Re: 2.6.14 heads up: ip_dev_find() not exported

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Oct 11 14:23:14 PDT 2005


Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rolandd at cisco.com>:
> Subject: 2.6.14 heads up: ip_dev_find() not exported
> 
> I noticed while compiling against an up-to-date kernel tree that SDP
> and IBAT both use the function ip_dev_find().  The EXPORT_SYMBOL for
> this function was removed during the 2.6.14 devel cycle.
> 
> I haven't looked yet at what this function does, how SDP and IBAT use
> it or what it could be replaced by.  But now would be a good time to
> figure out whether we need to ask for it to be re-exported, or if
> there's a better alternative to do whatever it does for us.
> 
>  - R.

Guys, did anyone figure out yet how we can find a device by its address
without ip_dev_find?

To remind you all, we use it to handle cases where the address is
local and so ip_route_output_key gets us a loopback device.

If not, is it too late to ask for it to be re-exported to modules?


-- 
MST



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