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driver: base: Disable CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER by default
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Since commit 7934779 ("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 86d5613 ("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>
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Apr 1, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ menu "Generic Driver Options"

config UEVENT_HELPER
bool "Support for uevent helper"
default y
help
The uevent helper program is forked by the kernel for
every uevent.
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