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[ovs-dev] openvswitch: use alias for genetlink family names

Message ID 1473453750-18854-1-git-send-email-cascardo@redhat.com
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Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Sept. 9, 2016, 8:42 p.m. UTC
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(+)

Comments

Pravin Shelar Sept. 10, 2016, 7:04 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
<cascardo@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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>
David Miller Sept. 11, 2016, 4:43 a.m. UTC | #2
From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@redhat.com>
Date: Fri,  9 Sep 2016 17:42:30 -0300

> 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>

Applied to net-next, thanks.
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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);