From: Márton Németh Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:30:16 +0000 (+0200) Subject: driver core: add more help description for "path to uevent helper" X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~9543^2~5 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=573c9774396091dc9d55e7de91026608fa2db3ee;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git driver core: add more help description for "path to uevent helper" The kernel configuration UEVENT_HELPER_PATH is a string to the uevent helper program. Add more description about how to disable this feature and how to enable it again during runtime. Signed-off-by: Márton Németh Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index 52c6758..fa64fa0 100644 --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH that it creates a high system load, or on smaller systems it is known to create out-of-memory situations during bootup. + To disable user space helper program execution at early boot + time specify an empty string here. This setting can be altered + via /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug or via /sys/kernel/uevent_helper + later at runtime. + config DEVTMPFS bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev" depends on HOTPLUG