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| author | Michael Marineau <mike@marineau.org> | 2014-04-10 14:09:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-04-25 12:00:49 -0700 |
| commit | 86d56134f1b67d0c18025ba5cade95c048ed528d (patch) | |
| tree | caa4346965954ded259784e3b68af159e3161aeb /drivers/base | |
| parent | d911d98748018f7c8facc035ba39c30f5cce6f9c (diff) | |
kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional.
Support for uevent_helper, aka hotplug, is not required on many systems
these days but it can still be enabled via sysfs or sysctl.
Reported-by: Darren Shepherd <darren.s.shepherd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau <mike@marineau.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index 8fa8deab644..4b7b4522b64 100644 --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ menu "Generic Driver Options" -config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH - string "path to uevent helper" - default "" +config UEVENT_HELPER + bool "Support for uevent helper" + default y help - Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for + The uevent helper program is 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 @@ -15,8 +15,13 @@ config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH that it creates a high system load, or on smaller systems it is known to create out-of-memory situations during bootup. - To disable user space helper program execution at early boot - time specify an empty string here. This setting can be altered +config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH + string "path to uevent helper" + depends on UEVENT_HELPER + default "" + help + To disable user space helper program execution at by default + specify an empty string here. This setting can still be altered via /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug or via /sys/kernel/uevent_helper later at runtime. |