On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:31:30PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 12:14 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > - Make the get_max_files export use _GPL - only unix.ko uses it.
> >
> > The real question is, does af_unix really need to allow beeing built
> > modular? It's quite different from other network protocol and deeply
> > tied to the kernel due to things like descriptor passing or using
> > the filesystem namespace. I already had to export another symbol that
> > really should be internal just for it, and if one module acquires lots
> > of such hacks it's usually a bad sign..
>
> in 2.4 the answer would have been simple; modutils back then used
> AF_UNIX stuff before it could load modules, so modular was in practice
> impossible.
>
> Anyway I'd agree with making this non-modular... NOBODY will use this as
> a module, or if they do loading it somehow is the very first thing done.
> You just can't live without this, so making it a module is non-sensical.
So let's send a patch. ;-)
cu
Adrian
<-- snip -->
CONFIG_UNIX=m doesn't make much sense.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
--- linux-2.6.16-rc4-mm1-full/net/unix/Kconfig.old 2006-02-20 14:40:19.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc4-mm1-full/net/unix/Kconfig 2006-02-20 14:40:27.000000000 +0100
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
#
config UNIX
- tristate "Unix domain sockets"
+ bool "Unix domain sockets"
---help---
If you say Y here, you will include support for Unix domain sockets;
sockets are the standard Unix mechanism for establishing and
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