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| author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2007-02-02 16:39:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-02-16 15:19:15 -0800 |
| commit | c353c3fb0700a3c17ea2b0237710a184232ccd7f (patch) | |
| tree | 7b5fd590bd9b0a08bee8425ad074e993629683d1 /include/linux/kmod.h | |
| parent | 89790fd789e024b23eb1fbccedd84a2015441ce0 (diff) | |
Driver core: let request_module() send a /sys/modules/kmod/-uevent
On recent systems, calls to /sbin/modprobe are handled by udev depending
on the kind of device the kernel has discovered. This patch creates an
uevent for the kernels internal request_module(), to let udev take control
over the request, instead of forking the binary directly by the kernel.
The direct execution of /sbin/modprobe can be disabled by setting:
/sys/module/kmod/mod_request_helper (/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe)
to an empty string, the same way /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is disabled on an
udev system.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kmod.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kmod.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h index 10f505c8431..cc8e674ae27 100644 --- a/include/linux/kmod.h +++ b/include/linux/kmod.h @@ -28,8 +28,10 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_KMOD /* modprobe exit status on success, -ve on error. Return value * usually useless though. */ +extern void kmod_sysfs_init(void); extern int request_module(const char * name, ...) __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 2))); #else +static inline void kmod_sysfs_init(void) {}; static inline int request_module(const char * name, ...) { return -ENOSYS; } #endif |