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| author | Johannes Berg <[email protected]> | 2016-10-24 12:40:02 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <[email protected]> | 2016-10-27 20:16:09 +0000 |
| commit | a07ea4d9941af5a0c6f0be2a71b51ac9c083c5e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 52d22e6ed0079bb5a78d610c2ee33a783f070553 /net/switchdev/switchdev.c | |
| parent | genetlink: introduce and use genl_family_attrbuf() (diff) | |
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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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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