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, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index 553cf7d6a4b..7d231c6c133 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;
 }