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Commit 7934779a authored by Kay Sievers's avatar Kay Sievers Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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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: default avatarKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 4237e5fd

drivers/base/Kconfig

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@@ -3,10 +3,18 @@ menu "Generic Driver Options" 
config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH

config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH

	string "path to uevent helper"

	string "path to uevent helper"

	depends on HOTPLUG

	depends on HOTPLUG

	default "/sbin/hotplug"

	default ""

	help

	help

	  Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for

	  Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for

	  every uevent.

	  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

config DEVTMPFS

	bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev"

	bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev"