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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

	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"