4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Sabrina Dubroca <[email protected]> [ Upstream commit 78362998f58c7c271e2719dcd0aaced435c801f9 ] This helps tools such as wpa_supplicant can start even if the macsec module isn't loaded yet. Fixes: c09440f7dcb3 ("macsec: introduce IEEE 802.1AE driver") Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/macsec.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/net/macsec.c +++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c @@ -3510,6 +3510,7 @@ module_init(macsec_init); module_exit(macsec_exit); MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("macsec"); +MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY("macsec"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MACsec IEEE 802.1AE"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
