[PATCH] openvswitch: use alias for genetlink family names

* [PATCH] openvswitch: use alias for genetlink family names
@ 2016-09-09 20:42 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
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From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo @ 2016-09-09 20:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev; +Cc: netdev

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>
---
 net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index 524c0fd..0536ab3 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);
-- 
2.7.4

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