Re: git-net-fixup.patch added to -mm tree

[Harald Welte]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 10:12:46PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:03:47 -0700
> 
> > From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  ...
> >  /* decrement reference count on a conntrack */
> > -extern void ip_conntrack_put(struct ip_conntrack *ct);
> > +static inline void
> > +ip_conntrack_put(struct ip_conntrack *ct)
> > +{
> > +   IP_NF_ASSERT(ct);
> > +   nf_conntrack_put(&ct->ct_general);
> > +}
> 
> You can instead just kill the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() in
> ip_conntrack_standalone.c as that's the only reference outside of
> ip_conntrack_core.c

for 2.6.13 this should work.  net-2.6.14 contains
ip_conntrack_netlink.c, which needs ip_conntrakc_put (and therefore the
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().  

We also have other code out-of-tree (e.g. ct_sync) that need the symbo.
I know this is no rectification, but I'm merely mentioning it JFYI.

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