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authorPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>2006-01-13 13:06:40 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2006-01-13 13:06:40 -0800
commit23b0ca5bf52cef0ab0f0fe247cb91cbef836e7eb (patch)
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parent2e4e6a17af35be359cc8f1c924f8f198fbd478cc (diff)
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[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')
-rw-r--r--net/tipc/netlink.c1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink.c b/net/tipc/netlink.c
index 6fe95ac..19b3f40 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 = {
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