Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932297AbdIRJOu (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2017 05:14:50 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55956 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932278AbdIRJOq (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2017 05:14:46 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Sabrina Dubroca , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH 4.9 04/78] macsec: add genl family module alias Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:11:13 +0200 Message-Id: <20170918091126.707476863@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.14.1 In-Reply-To: <20170918091126.077483037@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170918091126.077483037@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 874 Lines: 31 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Sabrina Dubroca [ 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/macsec.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/net/macsec.c +++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c @@ -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");