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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Tue, 4 Jun 2019 10:02:13 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/configs: Remove useless UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
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        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
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On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 10:01 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> 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@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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