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Driver core: let request_module() send a /sys/modules/kmod/-uevent

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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>
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Kay Sievers
2007-02-02 16:39:12 +01:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 89790fd789
commit c353c3fb07
4 changed files with 139 additions and 10 deletions
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@ -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