nl80211: Add generic netlink module alias for cfg80211/nl80211

To support auto-loading of wireless modules from netlink users, add module
alias for nl80211 family.

This also adds NL80211_GENL_NAME constant to define the "nl80211" netlink
family name as part of uapi.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Marcel Holtmann
2013-04-28 16:22:06 -07:00
committed by Johannes Berg
parent 55300a13d2
commit fb4e156886
3 changed files with 7 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
MODULE_AUTHOR("Johannes Berg");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("wireless configuration support");
MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(NL80211_GENL_NAME);
/* RCU-protected (and cfg80211_mutex for writers) */
LIST_HEAD(cfg80211_rdev_list);