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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:05:16 +0100
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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.