From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 10:01:12 +0200 References: <1559635193-21151-1-git-send-email-krzk@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <1559635193-21151-1-git-send-email-krzk@kernel.org> Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] um: configs: Remove useless UEVENT_HELPER_PATH From: Geert Uytterhoeven Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" To: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Jeff Dike , Richard Weinberger , Anton Ivanov , linux-um@lists.infradead.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Geert Uytterhoeven List-ID: On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 10:00 AM 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 Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds