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authorGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>2019-03-14 12:13:50 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-04-01 07:37:12 +0200
commit1be01d4a57142ded23bdb9e0c8d9369e693b26cc (patch)
treec8c51d75f951c0aeb3ff29c93b3f2252ff10e610 /drivers/base/Kconfig
parent159ef31e81edd75225c6a844115faf999de67b38 (diff)
driver: base: Disable CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER by default
Since commit 7934779a69f1184f ("Driver-Core: disable /sbin/hotplug by default"), the help text for the /sbin/hotplug fork-bomb says "This should not be used today [...] creates a high system load, or [...] out-of-memory situations during bootup". The rationale for this was that no recent mainstream system used this anymore (in 2010!). A few years later, the complete uevent helper support was made optional in commit 86d56134f1b67d0c ("kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional."). However, if was still left enabled by default, to support ancient userland. Time passed by, and nothing should use this anymore, so it can be disabled by default. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index 059700ea3521..9fb2c4c92340 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ menu "Generic Driver Options"
config UEVENT_HELPER
bool "Support for uevent helper"
- default y
help
The uevent helper program is forked by the kernel for
every uevent.