From: "Németh Márton" <nm127@freemail.hu>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] add more help description for "path to uevent helper"
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:30:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DFE5C58.5000400@freemail.hu> (raw)
From: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.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@freemail.hu>
---
--- linux-3.0-rc3/drivers/base/Kconfig.orig 2011-06-14 00:29:59.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-3.0-rc3/drivers/base/Kconfig 2011-06-19 23:21:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -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
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