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authorNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>2012-05-29 09:30:41 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-05-29 22:33:56 -0400
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genetlink: Build a generic netlink family module alias
Generic netlink searches for -type- formatted aliases when requesting a module to fulfill a protocol request (i.e. net-pf-16-proto-16-type-<x>, where x is a type value). However generic netlink protocols have no well defined type numbers, they have string names. Modify genl_ctrl_getfamily to request an alias in the format net-pf-16-proto-16-family-<x> instead, where x is a generic string, and add a macro that builds on the previously added MODULE_ALIAS_NET_PF_PROTO_NAME macro to allow modules to specifify those generic strings. Note, l2tp previously hacked together an net-pf-16-proto-16-type-l2tp alias using the MODULE_ALIAS macro, with these updates we can convert that to use the PROTO_NAME macro. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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