From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759300AbXLaMKL (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:10:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757724AbXLaMJ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:09:56 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:57320 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757382AbXLaMJy (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:09:54 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:09:43 +0100 (CET) From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> To: Jan Engelhardt , devzero@web.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/xpGJuN7CXiEJ2MrTLA86msWVnEPN/yIbp8Zs 05fCB8V54K/TBmUDbbbSZeu5pWBPJ6ozOgwVUR3NvxC1dToMN8 KSgqSPUSif7wetcsmoRRQ== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. diff -X dontdiff -pruN linux-2.6.23.base/net/unix/Kconfig linux-2.6.23.socket-y/net/unix/Kconfig --- linux-2.6.23.base/net/unix/Kconfig 2006-11-29 22:57:37.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.23.socket-y/net/unix/Kconfig 2007-12-31 12:57:44.000000000 +0100 @@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ # config UNIX - tristate "Unix domain sockets" + tristate "Unix domain sockets" if EMBEDDED + default y ---help--- If you say Y here, you will include support for Unix domain sockets; sockets are the standard Unix mechanism for establishing and -- A. Top posters Q. What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?