driver: base: Disable CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER by default
authorGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:13:50 +0000 (12:13 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 1 Apr 2019 05:37:12 +0000 (07:37 +0200)
commit1be01d4a57142ded23bdb9e0c8d9369e693b26cc
treec8c51d75f951c0aeb3ff29c93b3f2252ff10e610
parent159ef31e81edd75225c6a844115faf999de67b38
driver: base: Disable CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER by default

Since commit 7934779a69f1184f ("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 86d56134f1b67d0c ("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>
drivers/base/Kconfig