From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Márton Németh" <nm127@freemail.hu>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH 06/11] driver core: add more help description for "path to uevent helper"
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:05:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311739521-11014-6-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311739521-11014-1-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de>
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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
drivers/base/Kconfig | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index 52c6758..fa64fa0 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -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
--
1.7.6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-27 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-26 4:57 [GIT PATCH] driver core merge for 3.1 Greg KH
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 01/11] pti: pti_tty_install documentation mispelling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 02/11] DOCUMENTATION: Update overview.txt in Doc/driver-model Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 03/11] DOCUMENTATION: Replace create_device() with device_create() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 04/11] driver-core: Kconfig grammar corrections in firmware configuration Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 05/11] driver-core: modify FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help message Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 07/11] Documentation/zh_CN: Fix messy code file email-clients.txt Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 08/11] firmware: gsmi: remove sysfs entries when unload the module Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 09/11] uio: uio_pdrv_genirq: Add OF support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 8:17 ` Hans J. Koch
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 10/11] debugfs: add documentation for debugfs_create_x64 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-07-27 4:05 ` [PATCH 11/11] updated Documentation/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches Greg Kroah-Hartman
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