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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 <nm127@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Márton Németh 14 年之前
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drivers/base/Kconfig

@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
 	  that it creates a high system load, or on smaller systems
 	  that it creates a high system load, or on smaller systems
 	  it is known to create out-of-memory situations during bootup.
 	  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
 config DEVTMPFS
 	bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev"
 	bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev"
 	depends on HOTPLUG
 	depends on HOTPLUG