Re: [PATCH] powerpc/configs: Remove useless UEVENT_HELPER_PATH

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Tue Jun 04 2019 - 04:06:21 EST


On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 10:01 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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