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Patch "gtp: add genl family modules alias" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

gtp: add genl family modules alias

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
gtp-add-genl-family-modules-alias.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From foo@baz Thu Jun 15 14:56:50 CEST 2017

From: Andreas Schultz <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:40:56 +0100
Subject: gtp: add genl family modules alias

From: Andreas Schultz <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit ab729823ec16aef384f09fd2cffe0b3d3f6e6cba ]

Auto-load the module when userspace asks for the gtp netlink family.

---
 drivers/net/gtp.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
drivers/net/gtp.c +1 -0
@@ -1372,3 +1372,4 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Harald Welte <[email protected]>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Interface driver for GTP encapsulated traffic");
 MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("gtp");
+MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY("gtp");

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/gtp-add-genl-family-modules-alias.patch