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| author | Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu> | 2011-06-19 22:30:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-07-01 15:12:15 -0700 |
| commit | 573c9774396091dc9d55e7de91026608fa2db3ee (patch) | |
| tree | 0c533e28036c57c7f148f093fbf02a3688725133 /drivers/base/Kconfig | |
| parent | 156faf9080e0acf2b301c982e7a77cd6fbb2d0ad (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-573c9774396091dc9d55e7de91026608fa2db3ee.zip op-kernel-dev-573c9774396091dc9d55e7de91026608fa2db3ee.tar.gz | |
driver core: add more help description for "path to uevent helper"
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 |
