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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2016-10-24 15:40:02 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-10-27 23:16:09 +0300
commita07ea4d9941af5a0c6f0be2a71b51ac9c083c5e5 (patch)
tree52d22e6ed0079bb5a78d610c2ee33a783f070553 /include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h
parentc90c39dab3e02ce45427a214746711f33ad13be6 (diff)
downloadlinux-a07ea4d9941af5a0c6f0be2a71b51ac9c083c5e5.tar.xz
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>
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diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h
index 5512c90af7e3..d9b2db4a29c6 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ struct genlmsghdr {
/*
* List of reserved static generic netlink identifiers:
*/
-#define GENL_ID_GENERATE 0
#define GENL_ID_CTRL NLMSG_MIN_TYPE
#define GENL_ID_VFS_DQUOT (NLMSG_MIN_TYPE + 1)
#define GENL_ID_PMCRAID (NLMSG_MIN_TYPE + 2)