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authorMichael Marineau <mike@marineau.org>2014-04-11 01:09:31 +0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-04-25 23:00:49 +0400
commit86d56134f1b67d0c18025ba5cade95c048ed528d (patch)
treecaa4346965954ded259784e3b68af159e3161aeb /include/linux/kobject.h
parentd911d98748018f7c8facc035ba39c30f5cce6f9c (diff)
downloadlinux-86d56134f1b67d0c18025ba5cade95c048ed528d.tar.xz
kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional.
Support for uevent_helper, aka hotplug, is not required on many systems these days but it can still be enabled via sysfs or sysctl. Reported-by: Darren Shepherd <darren.s.shepherd@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau <mike@marineau.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index f896a33e8341..2d61b909f414 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -32,8 +32,10 @@
#define UEVENT_NUM_ENVP 32 /* number of env pointers */
#define UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE 2048 /* buffer for the variables */
+#ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
/* path to the userspace helper executed on an event */
extern char uevent_helper[];
+#endif
/* counter to tag the uevent, read only except for the kobject core */
extern u64 uevent_seqnum;