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, 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);