module: create a request_module_nowait()

There seems to be a common pattern in the kernel where drivers want to
call request_module() from inside a module_init() function. Currently
this would deadlock.

As a result, several drivers go through hoops like scheduling things via
kevent, or creating custom work queues (because kevent can deadlock on them).

This patch changes this to use a request_module_nowait() function macro instead,
which just fires the modprobe off but doesn't wait for it, and thus avoids the
original deadlock entirely.

On my laptop this already results in one less kernel thread running..

(Includes Jiri's patch to use enum umh_wait)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (bool-ified)
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>

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