netdev: define NETDEV_INTERNAL
Linus suggested during one of past maintainer summits (in context of a DMA_BUF discussion) that symbol namespaces can be used to prevent unwelcome but in-tree code from using all exported functions. Create a namespace for netdev. Export netdev_rx_queue_restart(), drivers may want to use it since it gives them a simple and safe way to restart a queue to apply config changes. But it's both too low level and too actively developed to be used outside netdev. Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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softirq
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will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.
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NETDEV_INTERNAL symbol namespace
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Symbols exported as NETDEV_INTERNAL can only be used in networking
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core and drivers which exclusively flow via the main networking list and trees.
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Note that the inverse is not true, most symbols outside of NETDEV_INTERNAL
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are not expected to be used by random code outside netdev either.
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Symbols may lack the designation because they predate the namespaces,
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or simply due to an oversight.
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return err;
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}
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EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(netdev_rx_queue_restart, "NETDEV_INTERNAL");
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