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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-08 20:31:16 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-08 20:31:16 +0200
commit3f17ea6dea8ba5668873afa54628a91aaa3fb1c0 (patch)
treeafbeb2accd4c2199ddd705ae943995b143a0af02 /drivers/base/Kconfig
parentLinux 3.15 (diff)
parentMerge tag 'clk-for-linus-3.16' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mike.turquette/... (diff)
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Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master
Now that 3.15 is released, this merges the 'next' branch into 'master', bringing us to the normal situation where my 'master' branch is the merge window. * accumulated work in next: (6809 commits) ufs: sb mutex merge + mutex_destroy powerpc: update comments for generic idle conversion cris: update comments for generic idle conversion idle: remove cpu_idle() forward declarations nbd: zero from and len fields in NBD_CMD_DISCONNECT. mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_* MAINTAINERS: adi-buildroot-devel is moderated MAINTAINERS: add linux-api for review of API/ABI changes mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging fs/dlm/debug_fs.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts fs/dlm/lockspace.c: convert simple_str to kstr fs/dlm/config.c: convert simple_str to kstr mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary memcg argument from soft limit functions mm: memcontrol: clean up memcg zoneinfo lookup mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free) mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations lib/radix-tree.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for radix tree allocations mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace() mm/kmemleak.c: use %u to print ->checksum ...
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/Kconfig19
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index 8fa8deab6449..23b8726962af 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
menu "Generic Driver Options"
-config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
- string "path to uevent helper"
- default ""
+config UEVENT_HELPER
+ bool "Support for uevent helper"
+ default y
help
- Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for
+ The uevent helper program is forked by the kernel for
every uevent.
Before the switch to the netlink-based uevent source, this was
used to hook hotplug scripts into kernel device events. It
@@ -15,8 +15,13 @@ 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
+config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
+ string "path to uevent helper"
+ depends on UEVENT_HELPER
+ default ""
+ help
+ To disable user space helper program execution at by default
+ specify an empty string here. This setting can still be altered
via /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug or via /sys/kernel/uevent_helper
later at runtime.
@@ -253,7 +258,7 @@ endchoice
config CMA_ALIGNMENT
int "Maximum PAGE_SIZE order of alignment for contiguous buffers"
- range 4 9
+ range 4 12
default 8
help
DMA mapping framework by default aligns all buffers to the smallest