Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in
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when i had that module modular and added to the initrd, udev didn`t work, though. same error message:
udevd[1226]: init_udev_socket: error getting socket: Address family not supported by protocol
not sure if i did a mistake here....
anyway, this message is not obvious to the end user.
i like the kernel being modular, but i also like it if things "just work" - and with "allmodconfig", modular UNIX domain sockets seem to create hassle. (see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-476363-highlight-.html or http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-463793-highlight-.html )
so, if this patch is being rejected, maybe it would be useful if udev would give a proper hint, if it`s missing this kernel feature.
btw, udev documentation telling this:
- The kernel must have sysfs, unix domain sockets and networking enabled. (unix domain sockets (CONFIG_UNIX) as a loadable kernel module may work, but it is completely silly - don't complain if anything goes wrong.)
furthermore, if this needs to be modular, then i`d please have tcp/ip networking modular, too. :)
regards
roland
ps:
not being a skilled programmer, so this is mostly an admins/users perspective.
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From: Bodo Eggert <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:09:43 +0100 (CET)Quoted 5 lines
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 <[email protected]>People who use udev can make sure they have it built into their kernel if they have such a dependency.
Not everyone uses udev, and therefore needs
AF_UNIXnon-modular.I keep seeing this crap patch get submitted and I'm going to keep dropping it because it's bogus.
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It seems to stem from some filesystem interface or whatever that the VFS folks don't want to export or one they want to now stop exporting.
But that is a really cruddy reason to want to force
AF_UNIXto not be allowed to be modular, and the udev thing just makes it more of a joke rather than a good technical reason.
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