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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2015-03-11 23:04:08 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-03-12 14:39:40 -0400
commitefd7ef1c1929d7a0329d4349252863c04d6f1729 (patch)
tree66a1d5ba57a27fda7665da756551c10ac0ebf656 /net/core/dev.c
parent6c7005f6cb1bf63bb1f505ef69364fb2cc00628e (diff)
net: Kill hold_net release_net
hold_net and release_net were an idea that turned out to be useless. The code has been disabled since 2008. Kill the code it is long past due. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 962ee9d71964..39fe369b46ad 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6841,8 +6841,6 @@ void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
{
struct napi_struct *p, *n;
- release_net(dev_net(dev));
-
netif_free_tx_queues(dev);
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
kvfree(dev->_rx);