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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>
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Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 2016-09-09 17:42:30 -03:00 committed by David S. Miller
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commit ed227099da
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@ -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);