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Merge branch 'netlink_multicast'
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 27 Dec 2014 07:20:30 +0000 (02:20 -0500)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 27 Dec 2014 07:20:30 +0000 (02:20 -0500)
commit45a19c40d14ca99edc088579210aa286806d1586
treeadc927b4f3fb05268c6ca808aee5d0109351fec1
parent19d3151928cc7345cf3d22c59a76804a1a6804cd
parentf9be4f2c2237d6ae3e8723a611a289d477ecf240
Merge branch 'netlink_multicast'

Johannes Berg says:

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netlink/genetlink cleanups & multicast improvements

I'm looking at using the multicast group functionality in a way that would
benefit from knowing when there are subscribers to avoid collecting the
required data when there aren't any. During this I noticed that the unbind
for multicast groups doesn't actually work - it's never called when sockets
are closed. Luckily, nobody actually uses the functionality.

While looking at the code trying to find why it's not called and where the
multicast listeners are actually removed, I found the potential cleanup in
patch 3. Patch 2 also has a cleanup for a generic netlink API in this area.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>