Commit 7c7c7f01 authored by stephen hemminger's avatar stephen hemminger Committed by David S. Miller
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vhost-net: add module alias (v2.1) 



By adding some module aliases, programs (or users) won't have to explicitly
call modprobe. Vhost-net will always be available if built into the kernel.
It does require assigning a permanent minor number for depmod to work.

Also:
  - use C99 style initialization.
  - add missing entry in documentation for loop-control

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-By: default avatarKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 252c3d84

Documentation/devices.txt

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@@ -447,6 +447,9 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. 
		234 = /dev/btrfs-control	Btrfs control device

		235 = /dev/autofs	Autofs control device

		236 = /dev/mapper/control	Device-Mapper control device

		237 = /dev/loop-control Loopback control device

		238 = /dev/vhost-net	Host kernel accelerator for virtio net



		240-254			Reserved for local use

		255			Reserved for MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR

drivers/vhost/net.c

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@@ -856,9 +856,9 @@ static const struct file_operations vhost_net_fops = { 
};



static struct miscdevice vhost_net_misc = {

	MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,

	"vhost-net",

	&vhost_net_fops,

	.minor = VHOST_NET_MINOR,

	.name = "vhost-net",

	.fops = &vhost_net_fops,

};



static int vhost_net_init(void)
@@ -879,3 +879,5 @@ MODULE_VERSION("0.0.1"); 
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");

MODULE_AUTHOR("Michael S. Tsirkin");

MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Host kernel accelerator for virtio net");

MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(VHOST_NET_MINOR);

MODULE_ALIAS("devname:vhost-net");

include/linux/miscdevice.h

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@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ 
#define AUTOFS_MINOR		235

#define MAPPER_CTRL_MINOR	236

#define LOOP_CTRL_MINOR		237

#define VHOST_NET_MINOR		238

#define MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR	255



struct device;

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