From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [1/1] netlink: no need to crash if table does not exist. Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:54:45 +0100 Message-ID: <46010EF5.6010306@trash.net> References: <20070321104456.GA2637@2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Evgeniy Polyakov Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:39628 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752095AbXCUKy5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:54:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070321104456.GA2637@2ka.mipt.ru> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > We would already do that on init. > Some things become very confused, when nl_table is not used to store > netlink sockets. Its unnecessary, but I don't understand what the problem is. Why would it be NULL and what gets confused?