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Driver-Core: disable /sbin/hotplug by default 

No recent mainstream system uses the /sbin/hotplug fork-bomb any more.
Disable it by default to reflect how it is used these days.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Kay Sievers 2010-01-14 22:49:39 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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commit 7934779a69
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@ -3,10 +3,18 @@ menu "Generic Driver Options"
config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
string "path to uevent helper"
depends on HOTPLUG
default "/sbin/hotplug"
default ""
help
Path to uevent helper program 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
usually pointed to a shell script at /sbin/hotplug.
This should not be used today, because usual systems create
many events at bootup or device discovery in a very short time
frame. One forked process per event can create so many processes
that it creates a high system load, or on smaller systems
it is known to create out-of-memory situations during bootup.
config DEVTMPFS
bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev"