From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752709Ab1G0EFp (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:05:45 -0400 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:55713 "EHLO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752171Ab1G0EFl (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:05:41 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: RdzG4HigYuyEAdVogJ8pcwcpFPDRt3rAXepfqTcoGXnp 1311739540 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: =?UTF-8?q?M=C3=A1rton=20N=C3=A9meth?= , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: [PATCH 06/11] driver core: add more help description for "path to uevent helper" Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:05:16 -0700 Message-Id: <1311739521-11014-6-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.6 In-Reply-To: <1311739521-11014-1-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> References: <20110726045707.GA2321@kroah.com> <1311739521-11014-1-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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