From c353c3fb0700a3c17ea2b0237710a184232ccd7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kay Sievers Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:39:12 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/params.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/params.c') diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c index 553cf7d6a4be..7d231c6c1334 100644 --- a/kernel/params.c +++ b/kernel/params.c @@ -714,6 +714,7 @@ static int __init param_sysfs_init(void) } param_sysfs_builtin(); + kmod_sysfs_init(); return 0; } -- cgit v1.2.3