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| author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2007-08-15 15:38:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-10-12 23:51:01 +0200 |
| commit | 6a8d8abb6e4497ae4132a9b1f0a956ea501f1c46 (patch) | |
| tree | f1951698261d20dab965e4595d84560f533ab14d /drivers/base | |
| parent | Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a struct (diff) | |
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Driver core: add CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
The kernel creates a process for every event that is send, even when
there is no binary it could execute. We are needlessly creating around
200-300 failing processes during early bootup, until we have the chance
to disable it from userspace.
This change allows us to disable /sbin/hotplug entirely, if you want to,
by setting UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="" in the kernel config.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/Kconfig | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index 5d6312e33490..d7da109c24fd 100644 --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ menu "Generic Driver Options" +config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH + string "path to uevent helper" + depends on HOTPLUG + default "/sbin/hotplug" + help + Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for + every uevent. + config STANDALONE bool "Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware" if EXPERIMENTAL default y |