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| author | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2013-05-21 13:49:35 +1000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-06-03 14:20:18 -0700 |
| commit | 40b313608ad4ea655addd2ec6cdd106477ae8e15 (patch) | |
| tree | 371f6ad524c7d85901bc9002ff2960ea10cb5154 /Documentation/usb | |
| parent | af5bc11e9aa19f72a2d5ccd44611cb6268a60a34 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-40b313608ad4ea655addd2ec6cdd106477ae8e15.tar.gz lwn-40b313608ad4ea655addd2ec6cdd106477ae8e15.zip | |
Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG
Ever since commit 45f035ab9b8f ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"),
it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG
turned off. Remove all the remaining references to it.
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/usb')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt b/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt index 4c945716a660..6424b130485c 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt @@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ you get the best hotplugging when you configure a highly modular system. KERNEL HOTPLUG HELPER (/sbin/hotplug) -When you compile with CONFIG_HOTPLUG, you get a new kernel parameter: -/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug, which normally holds the pathname "/sbin/hotplug". -That parameter names a program which the kernel may invoke at various times. +There is a kernel parameter: /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug, which normally +holds the pathname "/sbin/hotplug". That parameter names a program +which the kernel may invoke at various times. The /sbin/hotplug program can be invoked by any subsystem as part of its reaction to a configuration change, from a thread in that subsystem. |