ip6gre: add a rtnl link alias for ip6gretap

With this alias, we don't need to load manually the module before adding an ip6gretap interface with iproute2. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
mariux64 · Sep 26, 2014 · 5a4ee9a · 5a4ee9a
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diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -1724,4 +1724,5 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("D. Kozlov (xeb@mail.ru)");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("GRE over IPv6 tunneling device");
 MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("ip6gre");
+MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("ip6gretap");
 MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV("ip6gre0");