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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: "Torsten Kaiser" <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Cc: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@kernel.org>, "Bodo Eggert" <7eggert@gmx.de>,
	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
	devzero@web.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:05:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712312005.17384.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64bb37e0712311037w42bae43ayb3c10b2e0310586d@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 31 December 2007 19:37:43 Torsten Kaiser wrote:
> The base problem is that there already are many options to break
> external modules. (CONFIG_MODULES=n ;) )

Exactly. There already are enough ways to break external modules.
No need to introduce more. ;)

> The question I can't answer in this context is: Do distributions want
> to support external modules?
> Only if yes, your argument is valid. But then they could just disable
> this feature and prevent this kind of bugreports.

That's my point. Nobody will risk bugs to save a few bytes of memory.

-- 
Greetings Michael.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-31 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-31 12:09 [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in Bodo Eggert
2007-12-31 12:20 ` David Miller
2007-12-31 14:03   ` Bodo Eggert
2007-12-31 19:38     ` Al Viro
2008-01-01  3:45       ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-01  3:48         ` David Miller
2008-01-01  4:48           ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-01  5:01         ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-02 10:25           ` Herbert Xu
2008-01-02 12:26             ` Bodo Eggert
2007-12-31 12:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-31 13:26   ` Bodo Eggert
2007-12-31 14:42     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-31 15:19       ` Bodo Eggert
2007-12-31 15:34         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-31 17:43           ` Patrick Mau
2007-12-31 22:20             ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-31 17:51         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-31 18:05         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-31 15:55       ` Torsten Kaiser
2007-12-31 15:59         ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-31 16:01           ` Alan Cox
2007-12-31 16:17             ` Torsten Kaiser
2007-12-31 16:38               ` Alan Cox
2007-12-31 17:18                 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-31 18:37                   ` Torsten Kaiser
2007-12-31 19:05                     ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-12-31 16:11           ` Torsten Kaiser
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2007-12-31 13:23 devzero

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