From 573c9774396091dc9d55e7de91026608fa2db3ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Márton Németh Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:30:16 +0200 Subject: driver core: add more help description for "path to uevent helper" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 --- drivers/base/Kconfig | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/base/Kconfig') diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index 52c675883684..fa64fa04feec 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 -- cgit v1.2.3