kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional.
Support for uevent_helper, aka hotplug, is not required on many systems
these days but it can still be enabled via sysfs or sysctl.
Reported-by: Darren Shepherd <darren.s.shepherd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau <mike@marineau.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index 8fa8dea..4b7b452 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
menu "Generic Driver Options"
-config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
- string "path to uevent helper"
- default ""
+config UEVENT_HELPER
+ bool "Support for uevent helper"
+ default y
help
- Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for
+ The uevent helper program is 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
@@ -15,8 +15,13 @@
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
+config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
+ string "path to uevent helper"
+ depends on UEVENT_HELPER
+ default ""
+ help
+ To disable user space helper program execution at by default
+ specify an empty string here. This setting can still be altered
via /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug or via /sys/kernel/uevent_helper
later at runtime.