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driver: base: Disable CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER by default
authorGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:13:50 +0000 (12:13 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 1 Apr 2019 05:37:12 +0000 (07:37 +0200)
commit764ef35f5d3a95125553989f58e3dec71a119572
treec8c51d75f951c0aeb3ff29c93b3f2252ff10e610
parent2cbf2f4ee26ea11effa28360326d326ed4a1338d
driver: base: Disable CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER by default

Since commit 1f578beb2de33e87 ("Driver-Core: disable /sbin/hotplug by
default"), the help text for the /sbin/hotplug fork-bomb says
"This should not be used today [...] creates a high system load, or
[...] out-of-memory situations during bootup".  The rationale for this
was that no recent mainstream system used this anymore (in 2010!).

A few years later, the complete uevent helper support was made optional
in commit 625930d30441578a ("kobject: Make support for uevent_helper
optional.").  However, if was still left enabled by default, to support
ancient userland.

Time passed by, and nothing should use this anymore, so it can be
disabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/base/Kconfig