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>

diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index 059700ea352170bb10d3adc8a464744bc9dd8f51..9fb2c4c92340b7e674e2fece4c90581d3059e502 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ menu "Generic Driver Options"
 
 config UEVENT_HELPER
        bool "Support for uevent helper"
-       default y
        help
          The uevent helper program is forked by the kernel for
          every uevent.