Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:24:19 +0200 | | From | Adrian Bunk <> | | 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@gmx.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
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