On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:09:43PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:

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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 <redacted>

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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?

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