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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2010-01-14 22:49:39 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-03-07 17:04:48 -0800
commit7934779a69f1184f29d786b89e77dd14519bd226 (patch)
tree5f642d352c7c19feccae1bb18f557e35526f8ae8
parent4237e5fd3e07da268029cd4862cf551d9a74e33f (diff)
Driver-Core: disable /sbin/hotplug by default
No recent mainstream system uses the /sbin/hotplug fork-bomb any more. Disable it by default to reflect how it is used these days. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/Kconfig10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index 8021e19fa1e..fd52c48ee76 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -3,10 +3,18 @@ menu "Generic Driver Options"
config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
string "path to uevent helper"
depends on HOTPLUG
- default "/sbin/hotplug"
+ default ""
help
Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for
every uevent.
+ Before the switch to the netlink-based uevent source, this was
+ used to hook hotplug scripts into kernel device events. It
+ usually pointed to a shell script at /sbin/hotplug.
+ This should not be used today, because usual systems create
+ many events at bootup or device discovery in a very short time
+ frame. One forked process per event can create so many processes
+ that it creates a high system load, or on smaller systems
+ it is known to create out-of-memory situations during bootup.
config DEVTMPFS
bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev"