openvswitch: use alias for genetlink family names
When userspace tries to create datapaths and the module is not loaded,
it will simply fail. With this patch, the module will be automatically
loaded.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index 524c0fd..0536ab3 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -2437,3 +2437,7 @@
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Open vSwitch switching datapath");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(OVS_DATAPATH_FAMILY);
+MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(OVS_VPORT_FAMILY);
+MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(OVS_FLOW_FAMILY);
+MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(OVS_PACKET_FAMILY);