[PATCH 4.12 04/52] macsec: add genl family module alias

From	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH 4.12 04/52] macsec: add genl family module alias
Date	2017-09-18 11:20 +0200
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4.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>


[ 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 |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- 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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