On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 04:19:23PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:

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On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:26:42PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:

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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:

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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.
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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.

The only advantage I see is that the kernel image you have to flash 
can be made smaller - with the disadvantage that the running kernel
is bigger by more than 10%.

If you don't believe me, try it yourself:
Build all drivers statically into your kernel, and then compare the 
vmlinux sizes with CONFIG_MODULES=n and CONFIG_MODULES=y.

If you'd aim for a small kernel image, you would build anything as a module 
that is not requred for booting.
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Small kernel image to flash (e.g. due to a size limit there), if you 
would aim for a small running kernel you wouldn't use modules.

And I'm not so sure about the image size without seeing actual numbers, 
e.g. for your device.

Especially comparing your all-modular approach with a CONFIG_MODULES=n 
kernel using Denys' section garbage collection patches in both cases 
would be interesting.

I'm not claiming you are wrong, all I say is that I'm not convinced 
without actual numbers that you are right.

cu
Adrian

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