Subject: Re: netlink: remove subscriptions check on notifier

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:22:38 +0100

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 <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>

I've audited all users of this (all within netfilter) and this
change makes sense for them as well.

Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>