linux: don't automatically set uevent_helper with mdev /dev management
authorThomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:20:59 +0000 (09:20 +0100)
committerPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:50:50 +0000 (22:50 +0100)
commit05e2e35715d104e9dd67b4013d9b16a47b8eb3c0
tree18cee712f8de37314f15e460a4e39ae693cb8723
parenta89c588238294d45b6bbc892e9564525d4013ef3
linux: don't automatically set uevent_helper with mdev /dev management

When mdev /dev management is chosen in the buildroot configuration, the
Linux configuration is updated automatically to set option
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH to "/sbin/mdev". However, the help text of this
option explicitly recommends not setting this option due to large
performance impact during boot (experienced first hand by the reporter ánd
author).

The mdev startup script S10mdev already sets the helper during userspace
boot, which will make sure mdev is working correctly.

Fixes bug #6596: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=6596

Reported-by: Andreas Koop <andreas.koop@zf.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
linux/linux.mk