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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/wireless/nl80211.c | |
| parent | c90c39dab3e02ce45427a214746711f33ad13be6 (diff) | |
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/wireless/nl80211.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/nl80211.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index 7d8cb3330c86..714beafe05e0 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ static void nl80211_post_doit(const struct genl_ops *ops, struct sk_buff *skb, /* the netlink family */ static struct genl_family nl80211_fam = { - .id = GENL_ID_GENERATE, /* don't bother with a hardcoded ID */ .name = NL80211_GENL_NAME, /* have users key off the name instead */ .hdrsize = 0, /* no private header */ .version = 1, /* no particular meaning now */ |