Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] genetlink: reduce ops size and complexity (v2)

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:45:22 -0500

Are we killing APIs that are already used?
At least that patches that Dave sucked in do. Out of tree
users dont matter?

cheers,
jamal

On 11/15/13 08:23, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 14:18 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
>> I've been eyeing the multicast groups as well
>
> Of course, there are also *much* fewer mcast groups, so the saving isn't
> nearly as big. But we still have some oddball code to register them all,
> basically
>
> 	err = register_mc_group();
> 	if (err)
> 		goto unregister_family;
>
> (since we have to register the family first, afaict)
>
> sometimes a few of those back to back, and it'd be nicer on the users if
> that just went away and was
>
> 	family.mcast_groups = my_groups;
> 	family.n_mcast_groups = ARRAY_SIZE(my_groups);
> 	family.ops = my_ops;
> 	family.n_ops = ARRAY_SIZE(my_ops);
> 	return genl_register_family(&family);
>
> since nobody uses them dynamically anyway, afaict.
>
> johannes
>
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