On 04/29/2013 10:06 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
On 04/29/2013 01:22 AM, Marcel Holtmann wrote:diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c index 84c9ad7..68f0c96 100644 --- a/net/wireless/core.c +++ b/net/wireless/core.c @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Johannes Berg"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("wireless configuration support"); +MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(NL80211_GENL_NAME);Just being curious here (might learn something). What does this macro provide? Is it intended to help user-space tools identify the netlink API/family it provides?
Yikes, the answer is probably in the commit message: "To support auto-loading of wireless modules from netlink users" Sorry for the noise. Gr. AvS -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
