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>

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