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-rw-r--r--drivers/base/Kconfig5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index 52c675883684..fa64fa04feec 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
that it creates a high system load, or on smaller systems
it is known to create out-of-memory situations during bootup.
+ To disable user space helper program execution at early boot
+ time specify an empty string here. This setting can be altered
+ via /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug or via /sys/kernel/uevent_helper
+ later at runtime.
+
config DEVTMPFS
bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev"
depends on HOTPLUG