[PATCH] HOTPLUG: always enable the .config option, unless EMBEDDED

With modules, dynamic /dev, and uevents, people really want
CONFIG_HOTPLUG to be enabled in their kernels.  If not, they can still
disable it, but it is discouraged.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 0de8b7765ae4..d2b4e33d66ba 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -197,14 +197,6 @@ config AUDITSYSCALL
           can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
           such as SELinux.
 
-config HOTPLUG
-        bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if !ARCH_S390
-        default ARCH_S390
-        help
-          This option is provided for the case where no in-kernel-tree
-          modules require HOTPLUG functionality, but a module built
-          outside the kernel tree does. Such modules require Y here.
-
 config IKCONFIG
         bool "Kernel .config support"
         ---help---
@@ -289,6 +281,15 @@ config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
            you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
 
 
+config HOTPLUG
+        bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
+        default y
+        help
+          This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
+          capabilities is wanted by the kernel.  You should only consider
+          disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
+          dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery.  Just say Y.
+
 config PRINTK
         default y
         bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED