netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/5] netlink/genetlink cleanups & multicast improvements

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Date:	Thu, 25 Dec 2014 18:26:43 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] netlink/genetlink cleanups & multicast improvements

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:56:34 +0100

> I'm looking at using the multicast group functionality in a way that would
> benefit from knowing when there are subscribers to avoid collecting the
> required data when there aren't any. During this I noticed that the unbind
> for multicast groups doesn't actually work - it's never called when sockets
> are closed. Luckily, nobody actually uses the functionality.
> 
> While looking at the code trying to find why it's not called and where the
> multicast listeners are actually removed, I found the potential cleanup in
> patch 3. Patch 2 also has a cleanup for a generic netlink API in this area.

Series applied, using v2 of patch #5.
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