netdev - Re: [1/1] netlink: no need to crash if table does not exist.

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Message-ID: <46010EF5.6010306@trash.net>
Date:	Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:54:45 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1/1] netlink: no need to crash if table does not exist.

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?

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