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    driver: base: Disable CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER by default · 1be01d4a
    Geert Uytterhoeven authored
    Since commit 7934779a ("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 86d56134 ("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: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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