On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > --- > > 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? For now, it's a theoretical thought, but having an embedded device, I can see the reason for $EVERYTHING=m there. > After all, changing it to a bool will allow us to make the kernel image > for nearly everyone smaller by a few hundred bytes... I can't see why optionally building it as a module would force us to make the kernel bigger. It may be a little more ugly to support =m, but thats it, isn't it? -- Logic: The art of being wrong with confidence... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
