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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 1354ae83efc8..cede40d9cac9 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1864,8 +1864,7 @@ static inline
 void dev_net_set(struct net_device *dev, struct net *net)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
-        release_net(dev->nd_net);
-        dev->nd_net = hold_net(net);
+        dev->nd_net = net;
 #endif
 }