hello,

when doing a series of insmod/rmmod of af_netlink, I noticed
/proc/net/netlink entries being added each time.

this small patch addresses the problem:

--- snip ---
bash-2.03# diff -u linux-2.4.5.orig/net/netlink/af_netlink.c 
linux-2.4.5.new/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
--- linux-2.4.5.orig/net/netlink/af_netlink.c   Thu Apr 12 21:11:39 2001
+++ linux-2.4.5.new/net/netlink/af_netlink.c    Tue Jun 26 14:41:25 2001
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
  *             as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
  *             2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  * 
+ * Tue Jun 26 14:36:48 MEST 2001 Herbert "herp" Rosmanith
+ *                               added netlink_proto_exit
+ *
  */
 
 #include <linux/config.h>
@@ -985,4 +988,11 @@
        return 0;
 }
 
+static void __exit netlink_proto_exit(void)
+{
+       sock_unregister(PF_NETLINK);
+       remove_proc_entry("net/netlink", NULL);
+}
+
 module_init(netlink_proto_init);
+module_exit(netlink_proto_exit);
--- snip ---

thanks,
h.rosmanith
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