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| author |   Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2016-10-24 14:40:02 +0200 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-10-27 16:16:09 -0400 |
| commit | a07ea4d9941af5a0c6f0be2a71b51ac9c083c5e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 52d22e6ed0079bb5a78d610c2ee33a783f070553 /net/core/devlink.c | |
| parent | genetlink: introduce and use genl_family_attrbuf() (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-a07ea4d9941af5a0c6f0be2a71b51ac9c083c5e5.tar.xz linux-dev-a07ea4d9941af5a0c6f0be2a71b51ac9c083c5e5.zip | |
genetlink: no longer support using static family IDs
Static family IDs have never really been used, the only
use case was the workaround I introduced for those users
that assumed their family ID was also their multicast
group ID.
Additionally, because static family IDs would never be
reserved by the generic netlink code, using a relatively
low ID would only work for built-in families that can be
registered immediately after generic netlink is started,
which is basically only the control family (apart from
the workaround code, which I also had to add code for so
it would reserve those IDs)
Thus, anything other than GENL_ID_GENERATE is flawed and
luckily not used except in the cases I mentioned. Move
those workarounds into a few lines of code, and then get
rid of GENL_ID_GENERATE entirely, making it more robust.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/devlink.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/devlink.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/devlink.c b/net/core/devlink.c index d2fd736de6a2..3008d9c33875 100644 --- a/net/core/devlink.c +++ b/net/core/devlink.c @@ -342,7 +342,6 @@ static void devlink_nl_post_doit(const struct genl_ops *ops, } static struct genl_family devlink_nl_family = { - .id = GENL_ID_GENERATE, .name = DEVLINK_GENL_NAME, .version = DEVLINK_GENL_VERSION, .maxattr = DEVLINK_ATTR_MAX, |