From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:36:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] macsec: add genl family module alias
References: bnc#1060662
Patch-mainline: v4.12.14
Git-commit: 78362998f58c7c271e2719dcd0aaced435c801f9
[ 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>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
drivers/net/macsec.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/macsec.c b/drivers/net/macsec.c
index 79411675f0e6..d16ce61b3696 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c
@@ -3518,6 +3518,7 @@ 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");
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2.14.2