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| author | Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> | 2013-04-28 16:22:06 -0700 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2013-05-16 22:39:39 +0200 |
| commit | fb4e156886ce6e8309e912d8b370d192330d19d3 (patch) | |
| tree | bc4f6953b1a2983b93d5a0bd7d83669369e2503d /net/wireless | |
| parent | 55300a13d2ca1d59f659cf00b9d8dc93ea225882 (diff) | |
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nl80211: Add generic netlink module alias for cfg80211/nl80211
To support auto-loading of wireless modules from netlink users, add module
alias for nl80211 family.
This also adds NL80211_GENL_NAME constant to define the "nl80211" netlink
family name as part of uapi.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/core.c | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/nl80211.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c index 84c9ad7e1dca..68f0c96c0565 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); /* RCU-protected (and cfg80211_mutex for writers) */ LIST_HEAD(cfg80211_rdev_list); diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index f687a8d0d026..9cdcd9ec3317 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ static void nl80211_post_doit(struct genl_ops *ops, struct sk_buff *skb, /* the netlink family */ static struct genl_family nl80211_fam = { - .id = GENL_ID_GENERATE, /* don't bother with a hardcoded ID */ - .name = "nl80211", /* have users key off the name instead */ - .hdrsize = 0, /* no private header */ - .version = 1, /* no particular meaning now */ + .id = GENL_ID_GENERATE, /* don't bother with a hardcoded ID */ + .name = NL80211_GENL_NAME, /* have users key off the name instead */ + .hdrsize = 0, /* no private header */ + .version = 1, /* no particular meaning now */ .maxattr = NL80211_ATTR_MAX, .netnsok = true, .pre_doit = nl80211_pre_doit, |