Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:06:54 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Spawning modprobe for AX25?! |
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On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:14:31AM +0200, Horst von Brand wrote: > Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> said: > > [...] > > > The 2.1 socket code is modular enough that CONFIG_<type>=m is equivalent > > to CONFIG_<type>=n. I don't think that it would be worth the additional > > code and complexeties just to make it distingush between these two states > > for a protocol. It would be much better to just fix net-tools to check > > for the appropiate /proc/net files first before opening these sockets. > > Just too bad they won't appear until after you modprobe(8) for them ;-)
Good point. Then they should only open the sockets if the user requested information from them.
-Andi
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