From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: module: sysfs - add 'uevent' file to allow coldplug
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 08:28:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110704152857.GA17305@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4bysky2.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 02:26:21PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 14:14:49 -0700, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:00:29AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> > > Subject: module: sysfs - add 'uevent' file to allow built-in coldplug
> > >
> > > Userspace wants to manage module parameters with udev rules.
> > > This currently only works for loaded modules, but not for
> > > built-in ones.
> > >
> > > To allow access to the built-in modules we need to
> > > re-trigger all module load events that happened before any
> > > userspace was running. We already do the same thing for all
> > > devices, subsystems(buses) and drivers.
> > >
> > > This adds the currently missing /sys/module/<name>/uevent files
> > > to all module entries.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> >
> > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> >
> > Rusty, are you going to take this in your tree?
>
> Yep, done.
Wonderful, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-04 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-18 22:00 module: sysfs - add 'uevent' file to allow coldplug Kay Sievers
2011-06-19 23:23 ` Rusty Russell
2011-06-20 11:20 ` Kay Sievers
2011-06-21 1:53 ` Rusty Russell
2011-06-21 22:47 ` Kay Sievers
2011-06-22 2:00 ` Rusty Russell
2011-06-22 10:17 ` Kay Sievers
2011-06-23 0:27 ` Rusty Russell
2011-06-23 11:24 ` Kay Sievers
2011-07-01 3:07 ` Kay Sievers
2011-07-04 5:05 ` Rusty Russell
2011-07-04 15:56 ` Kay Sievers
2011-07-06 5:27 ` Rusty Russell
2011-07-01 21:14 ` Greg KH
2011-07-04 4:56 ` Rusty Russell
2011-07-04 15:28 ` Greg KH [this message]
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