From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: netlink: remove subscriptions check on notifier Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:22:38 +0100 Message-ID: <4B0554AE.1070100@trash.net> References: <1258409134.1375.0.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev To: Johannes Berg Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:43407 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752251AbZKSOWd (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:22:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1258409134.1375.0.camel@johannes.local> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg wrote: > The netlink URELEASE notifier doesn't notify for > sockets that have been used to receive multicast > but it should be called for such sockets as well > since they might _also_ be used for sending and > not solely for receiving multicast. We will need > that for nl80211 (generic netlink sockets) in the > future. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg > Cc: Patrick McHardy I've audited all users of this (all within netfilter) and this change makes sense for them as well. Acked-by: Patrick McHardy