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Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:24:19 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>, devzero@....de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in 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@....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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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