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authorHarald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>2005-08-09 19:40:55 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2005-08-29 15:35:08 -0700
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[NETLINK]: Add properly module refcounting for kernel netlink sockets.
- Remove bogus code for compiling netlink as module - Add module refcounting support for modules implementing a netlink protocol - Add support for autoloading modules that implement a netlink protocol as soon as someone opens a socket for that protocol Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kobject_uevent.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject_uevent.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index 8e49d21057e4..88f4d746aa05 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -153,7 +153,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobject_uevent_atomic);
static int __init kobject_uevent_init(void)
{
- uevent_sock = netlink_kernel_create(NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT, NULL);
+ uevent_sock = netlink_kernel_create(NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT, NULL,
+ THIS_MODULE);
if (!uevent_sock) {
printk(KERN_ERR