Hi Adrian, On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 8:54 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 6/7/19 8:35 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > BTW, do these kernels have CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER and/or > > CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH set? > > No, we haven't: > > root@pacman:~# grep CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER /boot/config-$(uname -r) > # CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER is not set > root@pacman:~# > > It's not set for amd64 either on Debian Stretch, at least. > > openSUSE sets it though: > > glaubitz@suse-laptop:~> grep CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER /boot/config-$(uname -r) > CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER=y > CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="" > glaubitz@suse-laptop:~> > > Should it be set?
No, please don't enable it. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/base/Kconfig?id=1be01d4a57142ded23bdb9e0c8d9369e693b26cc Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
