From a07ea4d9941af5a0c6f0be2a71b51ac9c083c5e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:40:02 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/macsec.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/macsec.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/macsec.c b/drivers/net/macsec.c index 1a134cb2d52c..a5309b81a786 100644 --- a/drivers/net/macsec.c +++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c @@ -1422,7 +1422,6 @@ static void clear_tx_sa(struct macsec_tx_sa *tx_sa) } static struct genl_family macsec_fam = { - .id = GENL_ID_GENERATE, .name = MACSEC_GENL_NAME, .hdrsize = 0, .version = MACSEC_GENL_VERSION, -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b