netdev - Re: [patch 1/1][IPV6] resend: remove duplicate call to proc_net

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Message-ID: <m1k5p4l3xa.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:53:53 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1][IPV6] resend:  remove duplicate call to proc_net_remove

Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com> writes:

> The file /proc/net/if_inet6 is removed twice.
> First time in:
>         inet6_exit
>              ->addrconf_cleanup
> And followed a few lines after by:
>         inet6_exit
>              -> if6_proc_exit
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

Looks like a good clean up to me.




> ---
>  net/ipv6/addrconf.c |    4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> Index: net-2.6/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> ===================================================================
> --- net-2.6.orig/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> +++ net-2.6/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> @@ -4288,8 +4288,4 @@ void __exit addrconf_cleanup(void)
>  	del_timer(&addr_chk_timer);
>  
>  	rtnl_unlock();
> -
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
> -	proc_net_remove(&init_net, "if_inet6");
> -#endif
>  }
>
> -- 
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