From a07ea4d9941af5a0c6f0be2a71b51ac9c083c5e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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 <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/irda/irnetlink.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
(limited to 'net/irda')
diff --git a/net/irda/irnetlink.c b/net/irda/irnetlink.c
index e15c40e86660..f23b81aa91fe 100644
--- a/net/irda/irnetlink.c
+++ b/net/irda/irnetlink.c
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
static struct genl_family irda_nl_family = {
- .id = GENL_ID_GENERATE,
.name = IRDA_NL_NAME,
.hdrsize = 0,
.version = IRDA_NL_VERSION,
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