From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Marcel Holtmann" <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: Add generic netlink module alias for cfg80211/nl80211
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:06:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <517E2A04.5050209@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367191326-30078-1-git-send-email-marcel@holtmann.org>
On 04/29/2013 01:22 AM, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
> index 84c9ad7..68f0c96 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/core.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/core.c
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Johannes Berg");
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("wireless configuration support");
> +MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(NL80211_GENL_NAME);
Just being curious here (might learn something). What does this macro
provide? Is it intended to help user-space tools identify the netlink
API/family it provides?
> /* RCU-protected (and cfg80211_mutex for writers) */
> LIST_HEAD(cfg80211_rdev_list);
Regards,
Arend
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-29 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-28 23:22 [PATCH] nl80211: Add generic netlink module alias for cfg80211/nl80211 Marcel Holtmann
2013-04-29 8:06 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2013-04-29 8:08 ` Arend van Spriel
2013-04-29 14:21 ` Johannes Berg
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