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| author |   Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> | 2017-08-14 14:57:39 -0600 |
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| committer |   Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> | 2017-08-22 17:04:22 -0400 |
| commit | e3bf14bdc17a8e917f337760cc7cacf3232d7dbc (patch) | |
| tree | d3cadc75b4c94b80f41118358053541e97f2ed86 /drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c | |
| parent | rdma: Allow demand loading of NETLINK_RDMA (diff) | |
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rdma: Autoload netlink client modules
If a message comes in and we do not have the client in the table, then
try to load the module supplying that client using MODULE_ALIAS to find
it.
This duplicates the scheme seen in other netlink muxes (eg nfnetlink).
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c index 474022274e09..3ba24c428c3b 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ * POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. */ +#include <linux/module.h> #include <net/netlink.h> #include <rdma/rdma_netlink.h> @@ -320,3 +321,5 @@ void __exit nldev_exit(void) { rdma_nl_unregister(RDMA_NL_NLDEV); } + +MODULE_ALIAS_RDMA_NETLINK(RDMA_NL_NLDEV, 5); |