kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional.

Support for uevent_helper, aka hotplug, is not required on many systems
these days but it can still be enabled via sysfs or sysctl.

Reported-by: Darren Shepherd <darren.s.shepherd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau <mike@marineau.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/ksysfs.c b/kernel/ksysfs.c
index 2495a9b14ac8..6683ccef9fff 100644
--- a/kernel/ksysfs.c
+++ b/kernel/ksysfs.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ static ssize_t uevent_seqnum_show(struct kobject *kobj,
 }
 KERNEL_ATTR_RO(uevent_seqnum);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
 /* uevent helper program, used during early boot */
 static ssize_t uevent_helper_show(struct kobject *kobj,
                                   struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ static ssize_t uevent_helper_store(struct kobject *kobj,
         return count;
 }
 KERNEL_ATTR_RW(uevent_helper);
-
+#endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROFILING
 static ssize_t profiling_show(struct kobject *kobj,
@@ -189,7 +190,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernel_kobj);
 static struct attribute * kernel_attrs[] = {
         &fscaps_attr.attr,
         &uevent_seqnum_attr.attr,
+#ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
         &uevent_helper_attr.attr,
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROFILING
         &profiling_attr.attr,
 #endif