From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754355Ab1FSUaq (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:30:46 -0400 Received: from relay01.digicable.hu ([92.249.128.189]:46393 "EHLO relay01.digicable.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754052Ab1FSUao (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:30:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4DFE5C58.5000400@freemail.hu> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:30:16 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TsOpbWV0aCBNw6FydG9u?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; hu-HU; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090402 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , LKML Subject: [PATCH] add more help description for "path to uevent helper" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Original: 188.143.83.101 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Márton Németh 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 --- --- 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