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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-01-27 16:59:56 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-01-27 16:59:56 -0800
commit95f873f2fff96c592c5d863e2a39825bd8bf0500 (patch)
tree0d2dd664964ba2c701aefea5b4d1e85b481045e1 /include/net/genetlink.h
parentnetlink: Kill redundant net argument in netlink_insert (diff)
parentMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net (diff)
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts: arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6sx-sdb.dts net/sched/cls_bpf.c Two simple sets of overlapping changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/genetlink.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/genetlink.h7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index d5a9a8b5af37..0574abd3db86 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -27,13 +27,18 @@ struct genl_info;
* @maxattr: maximum number of attributes supported
* @netnsok: set to true if the family can handle network
* namespaces and should be presented in all of them
+ * @parallel_ops: operations can be called in parallel and aren't
+ * synchronized by the core genetlink code
* @pre_doit: called before an operation's doit callback, it may
* do additional, common, filtering and return an error
* @post_doit: called after an operation's doit callback, it may
* undo operations done by pre_doit, for example release locks
* @mcast_bind: a socket bound to the given multicast group (which
* is given as the offset into the groups array)
- * @mcast_unbind: a socket was unbound from the given multicast group
+ * @mcast_unbind: a socket was unbound from the given multicast group.
+ * Note that unbind() will not be called symmetrically if the
+ * generic netlink family is removed while there are still open
+ * sockets.
* @attrbuf: buffer to store parsed attributes
* @family_list: family list
* @mcgrps: multicast groups used by this family (private)