netdev - [RFC 0/8] generic netlink multicast group cleanup

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Message-Id: <1384621429-24543-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Sat, 16 Nov 2013 18:03:41 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC 0/8] generic netlink multicast group cleanup

So I looked at the generic netlink multicast groups, and it turns out
that two users (drop_monitor and quota) abuse the groups.

Making the groups static has multiple benefits from space usage and    
initialization code complexity point of view, but also makes it much
harder to abuse the groups like that again in the future since each
call using them can check the group is actually valid in the family.

johannes

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