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| author | Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@redhat.com> | 2016-09-09 17:42:30 -0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-09-10 21:42:46 -0700 |
| commit | ed227099dac95128e2aecd62af51bb9d922e5977 (patch) | |
| tree | 8bd736258742bc3f31d690c6fc8ea1016ed1d1f2 | |
| parent | 3a8963acc70e69606729404713cfa9a03b58b18c (diff) | |
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openvswitch: use alias for genetlink family names
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 <cascardo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c index 524c0fd3078e..0536ab3504d5 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); |