Upstream commit:
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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <[email protected]>
---
datapath/datapath.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/datapath/datapath.c b/datapath/datapath.c
index db8a18a..3822129 100644
--- a/datapath/datapath.c
+++ b/datapath/datapath.c
@@ -2458,3 +2458,7 @@ module_exit(dp_cleanup);
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Open vSwitch switching datapath");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_VERSION(VERSION);
+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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