Commit 7934779a authored by Kay Sievers's avatar Kay Sievers Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver-Core: disable /sbin/hotplug by default

No recent mainstream system uses the /sbin/hotplug fork-bomb any more.
Disable it by default to reflect how it is used these days.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 4237e5fd
...@@ -3,10 +3,18 @@ menu "Generic Driver Options" ...@@ -3,10 +3,18 @@ menu "Generic Driver Options"
config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
string "path to uevent helper" string "path to uevent helper"
depends on HOTPLUG depends on HOTPLUG
default "/sbin/hotplug" default ""
help help
Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for
every uevent. every uevent.
Before the switch to the netlink-based uevent source, this was
used to hook hotplug scripts into kernel device events. It
usually pointed to a shell script at /sbin/hotplug.
This should not be used today, because usual systems create
many events at bootup or device discovery in a very short time
frame. One forked process per event can create so many processes
that it creates a high system load, or on smaller systems
it is known to create out-of-memory situations during bootup.
config DEVTMPFS config DEVTMPFS
bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev" bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev"
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