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add more help description for "path to uevent helper"

PATCH New Németh Márton 1 participant 1 message Jun 19, 2011 Driver core

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PATCH 1/1 add more help description for "path to uevent helper"

From: Márton Németh <[email protected]>

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.

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drivers/base/Kconfig renamed from drivers/base/Kconfig.orig +5 -0
@@ -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