macsec: add genl family module alias
authorSabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:36:08 +0000 (15:36 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 06:19:53 +0000 (08:19 +0200)
[ Upstream commit 78362998f58c7c271e2719dcd0aaced435c801f9 ]

This helps tools such as wpa_supplicant can start even if the macsec
module isn't loaded yet.

Fixes: c09440f7dcb3 ("macsec: introduce IEEE 802.1AE driver")
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/macsec.c

index a5d66e2..2caac0c 100644 (file)
@@ -3510,6 +3510,7 @@ module_init(macsec_init);
 module_exit(macsec_exit);
 
 MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("macsec");
+MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY("macsec");
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MACsec IEEE 802.1AE");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");