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 --- net/ieee802154/netlink.c | 1 - net/ieee802154/nl802154.c | 1 - 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ieee802154') diff --git a/net/ieee802154/netlink.c b/net/ieee802154/netlink.c index c8133c07ceee..19144158b696 100644 --- a/net/ieee802154/netlink.c +++ b/net/ieee802154/netlink.c @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ static unsigned int ieee802154_seq_num; static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ieee802154_seq_lock); struct genl_family nl802154_family = { - .id = GENL_ID_GENERATE, .hdrsize = 0, .name = IEEE802154_NL_NAME, .version = 1, diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c index 21aabadccd0e..182299858f1d 100644 --- a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c +++ b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ static void nl802154_post_doit(const struct genl_ops *ops, struct sk_buff *skb, /* the netlink family */ static struct genl_family nl802154_fam = { - .id = GENL_ID_GENERATE, /* don't bother with a hardcoded ID */ .name = NL802154_GENL_NAME, /* have users key off the name instead */ .hdrsize = 0, /* no private header */ .version = 1, /* no particular meaning now */ -- cgit v1.2.3