[PATCH] openvswitch: use alias for genetlink family names
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From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <hidden>
Date: 2016-09-09 20:42:40
Subsystem:
networking [general], openvswitch, the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Aaron Conole, Eelco Chaudron, Ilya Maximets, Linus Torvalds
When userspace tries to create datapaths and the module is not loaded, it will simply fail. With this patch, the module will be automatically loaded. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <redacted> --- net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index 524c0fd..0536ab3 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c@@ -2437,3 +2437,7 @@ module_exit(dp_cleanup); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Open vSwitch switching datapath"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); +MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(OVS_DATAPATH_FAMILY); +MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(OVS_VPORT_FAMILY); +MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(OVS_FLOW_FAMILY); +MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(OVS_PACKET_FAMILY);
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