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+rene...@glider.be> --- drivers/base/Kconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index 3e63a900b330e9b4..cf29115f055b8a1a 100644 --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -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. -- 2.17.1