diff --git a/man/man4/zfs.4 b/man/man4/zfs.4
index 2bfa3601fbcd..5b53b1310e49 100644
--- a/man/man4/zfs.4
+++ b/man/man4/zfs.4
@@ -1249,6 +1249,13 @@ Ideally, this will be at least the sum of each queue's
 .Sy max_active .
 .No See Sx ZFS I/O SCHEDULER .
 .
+.It Sy zfs_vdev_open_timeout_ms Ns = Ns Sy 1000 Pq uint
+Timeout value to wait before determining a device is missing
+during import.
+This is helpful for transient missing paths due
+to links being briefly removed and recreated in response to
+udev events.
+.
 .It Sy zfs_vdev_rebuild_max_active Ns = Ns Sy 3 Pq uint
 Maximum sequential resilver I/O operations active to each device.
 .No See Sx ZFS I/O SCHEDULER .
diff --git a/module/os/linux/zfs/vdev_disk.c b/module/os/linux/zfs/vdev_disk.c
index 11ed3ea6f4e0..84d191abb90b 100644
--- a/module/os/linux/zfs/vdev_disk.c
+++ b/module/os/linux/zfs/vdev_disk.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static void *zfs_vdev_holder = VDEV_HOLDER;
  * device is missing. The missing path may be transient since the links
  * can be briefly removed and recreated in response to udev events.
  */
-static unsigned zfs_vdev_open_timeout_ms = 1000;
+static uint_t zfs_vdev_open_timeout_ms = 1000;
 
 /*
  * Size of the "reserved" partition, in blocks.
@@ -1042,3 +1042,6 @@ param_set_max_auto_ashift(const char *buf, zfs_kernel_param_t *kp)
 
 	return (0);
 }
+
+ZFS_MODULE_PARAM(zfs_vdev, zfs_vdev_, open_timeout_ms, UINT, ZMOD_RW,
+	"Timeout before determining that a device is missing");