Patch #1 removes the ref/deref mechanism that was originally used to prevent ppp pseudowires from dropping their sockets. This mechanism was error prone and isn't used anymore.
Patch #2 removes some module specific refcount debugging. Patches #3 and #4 take care of some dead code. Guillaume Nault (4): l2tp: remove ->ref() and ->deref() l2tp: remove l2tp specific refcount debugging l2tp: remove l2tp_tunnel_count and l2tp_session_count l2tp: remove field 'dev' from struct l2tp_eth net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 62 +++++++------------------------------------------ net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h | 34 ++++----------------------- net/l2tp/l2tp_debugfs.c | 4 +--- net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c | 5 ---- net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c | 4 +--- net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c | 4 +--- net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c | 20 +++++++--------- net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 10 +++----- 8 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-) -- 2.15.0