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authorThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@redhat.com>2016-09-09 17:42:30 -0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-09-10 21:42:46 -0700
commited227099dac95128e2aecd62af51bb9d922e5977 (patch)
tree8bd736258742bc3f31d690c6fc8ea1016ed1d1f2 /net/openvswitch
parent3a8963acc70e69606729404713cfa9a03b58b18c (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/openvswitch')
-rw-r--r--net/openvswitch/datapath.c4
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);