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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2007-02-02 18:39:12 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-02-17 02:19:15 +0300
commitc353c3fb0700a3c17ea2b0237710a184232ccd7f (patch)
tree7b5fd590bd9b0a08bee8425ad074e993629683d1 /include/linux/kmod.h
parent89790fd789e024b23eb1fbccedd84a2015441ce0 (diff)
downloadlinux-c353c3fb0700a3c17ea2b0237710a184232ccd7f.tar.xz
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')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h
index 10f505c8431d..cc8e674ae27a 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