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| author | Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-05-29 09:30:41 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-05-29 22:33:56 -0400 |
| commit | e9412c37082b5c932e83364aaed0c38c2ce33acb (patch) | |
| tree | 479e716c478173830e378f432d3d0b24c6979541 /net/netlink | |
| parent | 2033e9bf06f07e049bbc77e9452856df846714cc (diff) | |
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genetlink: Build a generic netlink family module alias
Generic netlink searches for -type- formatted aliases when requesting a module to
fulfill a protocol request (i.e. net-pf-16-proto-16-type-<x>, where x is a type
value). However generic netlink protocols have no well defined type numbers,
they have string names. Modify genl_ctrl_getfamily to request an alias in the
format net-pf-16-proto-16-family-<x> instead, where x is a generic string, and
add a macro that builds on the previously added MODULE_ALIAS_NET_PF_PROTO_NAME
macro to allow modules to specifify those generic strings.
Note, l2tp previously hacked together an net-pf-16-proto-16-type-l2tp alias
using the MODULE_ALIAS macro, with these updates we can convert that to use the
PROTO_NAME macro.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netlink/genetlink.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c index 8340ace837f2..2cc7c1ee7690 100644 --- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ static int ctrl_getfamily(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES if (res == NULL) { genl_unlock(); - request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d-type-%s", + request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d-family-%s", PF_NETLINK, NETLINK_GENERIC, name); genl_lock(); res = genl_family_find_byname(name); |