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diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index e373671652b..23b8726962a 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
menu "Generic Driver Options"
-config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
- string "path to uevent helper"
- default ""
+config UEVENT_HELPER
+ bool "Support for uevent helper"
+ default y
help
- Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for
+ The uevent helper program is forked by the kernel for
every uevent.
Before the switch to the netlink-based uevent source, this was
used to hook hotplug scripts into kernel device events. It
@@ -15,8 +15,13 @@ config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
that it creates a high system load, or on smaller systems
it is known to create out-of-memory situations during bootup.
- To disable user space helper program execution at early boot
- time specify an empty string here. This setting can be altered
+config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
+ string "path to uevent helper"
+ depends on UEVENT_HELPER
+ default ""
+ help
+ To disable user space helper program execution at by default
+ specify an empty string here. This setting can still be altered
via /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug or via /sys/kernel/uevent_helper
later at runtime.
@@ -49,7 +54,7 @@ config DEVTMPFS_MOUNT
with the commandline parameter: devtmpfs.mount=0|1.
This option does not affect initramfs based booting, here
the devtmpfs filesystem always needs to be mounted manually
- after the roots is mounted.
+ after the rootfs is mounted.
With this option enabled, it allows to bring up a system in
rescue mode with init=/bin/sh, even when the /dev directory
on the rootfs is completely empty.
@@ -185,6 +190,9 @@ config GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
bool
default n
+config GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
+ bool
+
config SOC_BUS
bool
@@ -250,7 +258,7 @@ endchoice
config CMA_ALIGNMENT
int "Maximum PAGE_SIZE order of alignment for contiguous buffers"
- range 4 9
+ range 4 12
default 8
help
DMA mapping framework by default aligns all buffers to the smallest