[PATCH v2] ARM: configs: Remove useless UEVENT_HELPER_PATH

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Tue Jun 4 18:55:36 AEST 2019


On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 10:14:53AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Remove the CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH because:
> 1. It is disabled since commit 1be01d4a5714 ("driver: base: Disable
>    CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER by default") as its dependency (UEVENT_HELPER) was
>    made default to 'n',
> 2. It is not recommended (help message: "This should not be used today
>    [...] creates a high system load") and was kept only for ancient
>    userland,
> 3. Certain userland specifically requests it to be disabled (systemd
>    README: "Legacy hotplug slows down the system and confuses udev").
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
> 
> ---
> 
> Changes since v2:
> 1. Remove unrelated files.
> 2. Add Geert's ack.
> ---

[...]

> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/vexpress_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/vexpress_defconfig
> index d170da388389..25753552277a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/configs/vexpress_defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/configs/vexpress_defconfig
> @@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y
>  # CONFIG_WIRELESS is not set
>  CONFIG_NET_9P=y
>  CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO=y
> -CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug"
>  CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
>  CONFIG_DMA_CMA=y
>  CONFIG_MTD=y

(for vexpress)

Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>

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Regards,
Sudeep


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