From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: admin-guide: update description for kernel.hotplug sysctl
Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 09:23:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cztu7j4m.fsf@meer.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210420120638.1104016-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> writes:
> It's been a few releases since this defaulted to /sbin/hotplug. Update
> the text, and include pointers to the two CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER{,_PATH}
> config knobs whose help text could provide more info, but also hint
> that the user probably doesn't need to care at all.
>
> Fixes: 7934779a69f1 ("Driver-Core: disable /sbin/hotplug by default")
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
> index 1d56a6b73a4e..c24f57f2c782 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
> @@ -333,7 +333,12 @@ hotplug
> =======
>
> Path for the hotplug policy agent.
> -Default value is "``/sbin/hotplug``".
> +Default value is ``CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH``, which in turn defaults
> +to the empty string.
> +
> +This file only exists when ``CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER`` is enabled. Most
> +modern systems rely exclusively on the netlink-based uevent source and
> +don't need this.
Applied, thanks.
jon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-13 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-20 12:06 [PATCH] docs: admin-guide: update description for kernel.hotplug sysctl Rasmus Villemoes
2021-05-06 13:06 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2021-05-13 15:23 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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