Hi Stanislaw,
> With the alias cfg80211 module is loaded on systems without the wireless
> hardware when user-space use nl80211 to discover if there are wireless
> devices, what is considered as resources wastage. On systems with
> wireless hardware cfg80211 module will be loaded anyway.
>
> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/wireless/core.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
> index a4d2792..badcabe 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/core.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/core.c
> @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Johannes Berg");
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("wireless configuration support");
> -MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(NL80211_GENL_NAME);
NAK.
We want to auto-load cfg80211 when userspace asked for nl80211 netlink family.
Regards
Marcel
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