linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: configs: Remove useless UEVENT_HELPER

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Message-ID: <20190619140924.cl33iuqndoigldgi@localhost>
Date:   Wed, 19 Jun 2019 07:09:24 -0700
From:   Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
Cc:     arm@...nel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...rochip.com>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
        Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@...ia.com>,
        Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux.tyco@...il.com>,
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        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: configs: Remove useless UEVENT_HELPER_PATH

On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 10:14:53AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Remove the CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH because:
> 1. It is disabled since commit 1be01d4a5714 ("driver: base: Disable
>    CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER by default") as its dependency (UEVENT_HELPER) was
>    made default to 'n',
> 2. It is not recommended (help message: "This should not be used today
>    [...] creates a high system load") and was kept only for ancient
>    userland,
> 3. Certain userland specifically requests it to be disabled (systemd
>    README: "Legacy hotplug slows down the system and confuses udev").
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
> 
> ---
> 
> Changes since v2:
> 1. Remove unrelated files.
> 2. Add Geert's ack.

So your other patch added mini2440 in a follow-up patch, but this one doesn't?!

Applied with that fixup.


-Olof