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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2010-01-14 16:49:39 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-03-07 20:04:48 -0500
commit7934779a69f1184f29d786b89e77dd14519bd226 (patch)
tree5f642d352c7c19feccae1bb18f557e35526f8ae8
parent4237e5fd3e07da268029cd4862cf551d9a74e33f (diff)
Driver-Core: disable /sbin/hotplug by default
No recent mainstream system uses the /sbin/hotplug fork-bomb any more. Disable it by default to reflect how it is used these days. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/Kconfig10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index 8021e19fa1ea..fd52c48ee762 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -3,10 +3,18 @@ menu "Generic Driver Options"
3config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH 3config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
4 string "path to uevent helper" 4 string "path to uevent helper"
5 depends on HOTPLUG 5 depends on HOTPLUG
6 default "/sbin/hotplug" 6 default ""
7 help 7 help
8 Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for 8 Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for
9 every uevent. 9 every uevent.
10 Before the switch to the netlink-based uevent source, this was
11 used to hook hotplug scripts into kernel device events. It
12 usually pointed to a shell script at /sbin/hotplug.
13 This should not be used today, because usual systems create
14 many events at bootup or device discovery in a very short time
15 frame. One forked process per event can create so many processes
16 that it creates a high system load, or on smaller systems
17 it is known to create out-of-memory situations during bootup.
10 18
11config DEVTMPFS 19config DEVTMPFS
12 bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev" 20 bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev"