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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2016-10-24 14:40:02 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-10-27 22:16:09 +0200
commita07ea4d9941af5a0c6f0be2a71b51ac9c083c5e5 (patch)
tree52d22e6ed0079bb5a78d610c2ee33a783f070553 /drivers/net/wireless
parentgenetlink: 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 <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
index e95b79bccf9b..54b6cd62676e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
@@ -589,7 +589,6 @@ struct hwsim_radiotap_ack_hdr {
/* MAC80211_HWSIM netlinf family */
static struct genl_family hwsim_genl_family = {
- .id = GENL_ID_GENERATE,
.hdrsize = 0,
.name = "MAC80211_HWSIM",
.version = 1,