From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755820Ab1GDP3u (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2011 11:29:50 -0400 Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:59365 "EHLO out5.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753532Ab1GDP3s (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2011 11:29:48 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: PMfgn0TF+LX+i7RCkG7amFFMqZk561s71YUmM8Z0nAD+ 1309793386 Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 08:28:57 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Rusty Russell Cc: Kay Sievers , linux-kernel Subject: Re: module: sysfs - add 'uevent' file to allow coldplug Message-ID: <20110704152857.GA17305@kroah.com> References: <1308434431.1050.5.camel@mop> <20110701211449.GB19805@kroah.com> <87k4bysky2.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k4bysky2.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 02:26:21PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 14:14:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:00:29AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > From: Kay Sievers > > > 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//uevent files > > > to all module entries. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers > > > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > Rusty, are you going to take this in your tree? > > Yep, done. Wonderful, thanks.