Re: [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in

Alan Cox
2007-12-31T16:46:43Z

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:17:19 +0100
"Torsten Kaiser" <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com> wrote:

> a) this could be disabled during development if you want this
> b) this would even only affect development if you add new code that
> now needs a EXPORT_SYMBOL that was removed on an earlier build. And
> right now this would also need to trigger a rerun of depmod. And the
> same trigger could redo this garbage collect.
>
> Or am I missing something obvious?

Development is not a phase seperate from use or distribution. A lot of
module testers for distributions will not be compiling their own modules
but loading in ones to test provided by their vendor - which may of
course then need different ksyms

Alan