Re: CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER default

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:30:05AM -0700, Michael Marineau wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2014 11:23 AM, "Alan Stern" <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Michael and Greg:
> >
> > The help text for CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER says (among other things):
> >
> >           This should not be used today, because usual systems create
> >           many events at bootup or device discovery in a very short time
> >           frame.
> >
> > If it shouldn't be used, why does it default to 'y'?
> >
> > Alan Stern
> >
> 
> To introduce the option but not change the default behavior. (yet?) I don't
> really have an opinion one way or the other, I just defaulted to being
> conservative.

Yes, being conservative is good as turning this off with older systems
(like the pathological Fedora 3 system that some kernel developers still
use for testing), would result in a non-booting box.  So if you know
that your system is "new enough", it's safe to turn off, but if you have
a doubt, leave it on to be safe.

thanks,

greg k-h