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Message-Id: <20230608202628.837772-5-aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Date: Thu,  8 Jun 2023 22:26:28 +0200
From: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>
To: davem@...emloft.net
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>,
	Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>,
	Luca Boccassi <bluca@...ian.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v7 4/4] af_unix: Kconfig: make CONFIG_UNIX bool

Let's make CONFIG_UNIX a bool instead of a tristate.
We've decided to do that during discussion about SCM_PIDFD patchset [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230524081933.44dc8bea@kernel.org/

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>
Cc: Luca Boccassi <bluca@...ian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>
---
 net/unix/Kconfig | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/unix/Kconfig b/net/unix/Kconfig
index b7f811216820..28b232f281ab 100644
--- a/net/unix/Kconfig
+++ b/net/unix/Kconfig
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 
 config UNIX
-	tristate "Unix domain sockets"
+	bool "Unix domain sockets"
 	help
 	  If you say Y here, you will include support for Unix domain sockets;
 	  sockets are the standard Unix mechanism for establishing and
@@ -14,10 +14,6 @@ config UNIX
 	  an embedded system or something similar, you therefore definitely
 	  want to say Y here.
 
-	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
-	  called unix.  Note that several important services won't work
-	  correctly if you say M here and then neglect to load the module.
-
 	  Say Y unless you know what you are doing.
 
 config UNIX_SCM
-- 
2.34.1