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

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Date:	Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:05:16 +0100
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	"Torsten Kaiser" <just.for.lkml@...glemail.com>
Cc:	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...nel.org>, "Bodo Eggert" <7eggert@....de>,
	"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 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.
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