From 4da6a738ffdb99b88efbe5b4c4fe521ca453640d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:47:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] gre: add module alias for gre0 tunnel device
If gre is built as a module the 'ip tunnel add' command would fail because
the ip_gre module was not being autoloaded. Adding an alias for
the gre0 device name cause dev_load() to autoload it when needed.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
index 98769c399d9e..258c98d5fa79 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
@@ -1764,3 +1764,4 @@ module_exit(ipgre_fini);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("gre");
MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("gretap");
+MODULE_ALIAS("gre0");
--
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