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genetlink: Build a generic netlink family module alias

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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 <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Neil Horman
2012-05-29 09:30:41 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 2033e9bf06
commit e9412c3708
3 changed files with 5 additions and 3 deletions
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@@ -110,6 +110,9 @@ extern int lockdep_genl_is_held(void);
#define genl_dereference(p) \
rcu_dereference_protected(p, lockdep_genl_is_held())
#define MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(family)\
MODULE_ALIAS_NET_PF_PROTO_NAME(PF_NETLINK, NETLINK_GENERIC, "-family-" family)
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* __LINUX_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */