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| author | Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> | 2006-01-13 13:06:40 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2006-01-13 13:06:40 -0800 |
| commit | 23b0ca5bf52cef0ab0f0fe247cb91cbef836e7eb (patch) | |
| tree | 3643a547de2c6f3bad63361d1584ff566c9012ba /net/tipc/netlink.c | |
| parent | 2e4e6a17af35be359cc8f1c924f8f198fbd478cc (diff) | |
| download | lwn-23b0ca5bf52cef0ab0f0fe247cb91cbef836e7eb.tar.gz lwn-23b0ca5bf52cef0ab0f0fe247cb91cbef836e7eb.zip | |
[PATCH] genetlink: don't touch module ref count
Increasing the module ref count at registration will block the module from
ever being unloaded. In fact, genetlink should not care about the owner at
all. This patch removes the owner field from the struct registered with
genetlink.
Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc/netlink.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/tipc/netlink.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink.c b/net/tipc/netlink.c index 6fe95acde4fa..19b3f4022532 100644 --- a/net/tipc/netlink.c +++ b/net/tipc/netlink.c @@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ static struct genl_family family = { .version = TIPC_GENL_VERSION, .hdrsize = TIPC_GENL_HDRLEN, .maxattr = 0, - .owner = THIS_MODULE, }; static struct genl_ops ops = { |