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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)
commitb8255da6620f3a9ba0a40c0e0f16d0970f24daee
treec8c51d75f951c0aeb3ff29c93b3f2252ff10e610
parent8064901b9ff2870b43b2c417c18b63ecda574767
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 c1a42935197c333d ("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