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 524c0fd3078e7d4a7358118d9cfe93be5f64b052..0536ab3504d5e416c481359880852ced520ef4bc 100644 (file)
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -2437,3 +2437,7 @@ module_exit(dp_cleanup);
 
 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);