Neil Horman e9412c3708 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 <[email protected]>
CC: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
CC: James Chapman <[email protected]>
CC: David Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

2012-05-29 22:33:56 -04:00

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af_netlink.c

af_netlink: drop_monitor/dropwatch friendly

2012-04-24 00:35:14 -04:00

genetlink.c

genetlink: Build a generic netlink family module alias

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