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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2016-10-24 14:40:02 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-10-27 16:16:09 -0400 |
| commit | a07ea4d9941af5a0c6f0be2a71b51ac9c083c5e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 52d22e6ed0079bb5a78d610c2ee33a783f070553 /drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c | |
| parent | c90c39dab3e02ce45427a214746711f33ad13be6 (diff) | |
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/scsi/pmcraid.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c b/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c index 68a5c347fae9..cc50eb87b28a 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c @@ -1369,12 +1369,6 @@ static struct genl_multicast_group pmcraid_mcgrps[] = { }; static struct genl_family pmcraid_event_family = { - /* - * Due to prior multicast group abuse (the code having assumed that - * the family ID can be used as a multicast group ID) we need to - * statically allocate a family (and thus group) ID. - */ - .id = GENL_ID_PMCRAID, .name = "pmcraid", .version = 1, .maxattr = PMCRAID_AEN_ATTR_MAX, |