batman-adv: Drop implicit creation of batadv net_devices

The sysfs code in batman-adv was could create a new batadv interfaces on
demand when a string (interface name) was written to the
batman-adv/mesh_iface file. But the code no longer exists in the current
batman-adv codebase. The helper code to implement this behavior must be
considered as unused and can be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
index a21884c0d47f..0c5b34251a6d 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
 #include <linux/netlink.h>
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
-#include <linux/printk.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
 #include <linux/rculist.h>
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
@@ -37,6 +36,7 @@
 #include <linux/stddef.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
+#include <net/net_namespace.h>
 #include <net/netlink.h>
 #include <uapi/linux/batadv_packet.h>
 #include <uapi/linux/batman_adv.h>
@@ -1087,38 +1087,6 @@ static int batadv_softif_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
 }
 
 /**
- * batadv_softif_create() - Create and register soft interface
- * @net: the applicable net namespace
- * @name: name of the new soft interface
- *
- * Return: newly allocated soft_interface, NULL on errors
- */
-struct net_device *batadv_softif_create(struct net *net, const char *name)
-{
-	struct net_device *soft_iface;
-	int ret;
-
-	soft_iface = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct batadv_priv), name,
-				  NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, batadv_softif_init_early);
-	if (!soft_iface)
-		return NULL;
-
-	dev_net_set(soft_iface, net);
-
-	soft_iface->rtnl_link_ops = &batadv_link_ops;
-
-	ret = register_netdevice(soft_iface);
-	if (ret < 0) {
-		pr_err("Unable to register the batman interface '%s': %i\n",
-		       name, ret);
-		free_netdev(soft_iface);
-		return NULL;
-	}
-
-	return soft_iface;
-}
-
-/**
  * batadv_softif_destroy_netlink() - deletion of batadv_soft_interface via
  *  netlink
  * @soft_iface: the to-be-removed batman-adv interface