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[NETLINK]: Add properly module refcounting for kernel netlink sockets.

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- Remove bogus code for compiling netlink as module
- Add module refcounting support for modules implementing a netlink
  protocol
- Add support for autoloading modules that implement a netlink protocol
  as soon as someone opens a socket for that protocol

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Harald Welte
2005-08-09 19:40:55 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 020b4c12db
commit 4fdb3bb723
17 changed files with 119 additions and 36 deletions
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@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ void __init rtnetlink_init(void)
if (!rta_buf)
panic("rtnetlink_init: cannot allocate rta_buf\n");
rtnl = netlink_kernel_create(NETLINK_ROUTE, rtnetlink_rcv);
rtnl = netlink_kernel_create(NETLINK_ROUTE, rtnetlink_rcv, THIS_MODULE);
if (rtnl == NULL)
panic("rtnetlink_init: cannot initialize rtnetlink\n");
netlink_set_nonroot(NETLINK_ROUTE, NL_NONROOT_RECV);