From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:24:19 +0200 Message-ID: <20071231122419.GA13803@does.not.exist> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Jan Engelhardt , devzero@web.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Return-path: Received: from smtp6.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.40]:54367 "EHLO smtp6.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757382AbXLaMYb (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:24:31 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:09:43PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > As suggested by Adrian Bunk, UNIX domain sockets should always be built in > on normal systems. This is especially true since udev needs these sockets > and fails to run if UNIX=m. > > Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> > > --- > Last minute change: I decided against making it a bool because embedded > folks might depend on a small kernel image. Edited in the patch below. >... Is this just a purely theoretical thought or is this a reasonable use case people actually use in practice? After all, changing it to a bool will allow us to make the kernel image for nearly everyone smaller by a few hundred bytes... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed