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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:05:16 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: Márton Németh <nm127@...email.hu>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de> Subject: [PATCH 06/11] driver core: add more help description for "path to uevent helper" From: Márton Németh <nm127@...email.hu> The kernel configuration UEVENT_HELPER_PATH is a string to the uevent helper program. Add more description about how to disable this feature and how to enable it again during runtime. Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@...email.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de> --- drivers/base/Kconfig | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index 52c6758..fa64fa0 100644 --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ 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 + via /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug or via /sys/kernel/uevent_helper + later at runtime. + config DEVTMPFS bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev" depends on HOTPLUG -- 1.7.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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