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>
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Johannes Berg 2016-10-24 14:40:02 +02:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent c90c39dab3
commit a07ea4d994
37 changed files with 24 additions and 69 deletions

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@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ static int family_registered;
struct kmem_cache *taskstats_cache;
static struct genl_family family = {
.id = GENL_ID_GENERATE,
.name = TASKSTATS_GENL_NAME,
.version = TASKSTATS_GENL_VERSION,
.maxattr = TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX,