Re: [PATCH] ipvs: autoload ipvs on genl access
From: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Date: 2021-10-21 18:33:32
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Hello, On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
The kernel provides the functionality to automatically load modules providing genl families. Use this to remove the need for users to manually load the module. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Looks good to me for -next tree, thanks! Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c index 29ec3ef63edc..0ff94c66641f 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ #include <net/ip_vs.h> +MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(IPVS_GENL_NAME); + /* semaphore for IPVS sockopts. And, [gs]etsockopt may sleep. */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(__ip_vs_mutex);base-commit: d9aaaf223297f6146d9d7f36caca927c92ab855a -- 2.33.1
Regards -- Julian Anastasov [off-list ref]