Re: [TCLUG:14187] compile problems: net-pf-1 module?

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

Mike Hicks wrote:
>According to
>http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9910.0/0770.html,
>net-pf-1 is the Unix domain sockets module (used for various
>intra-system communications).  The kernel docs should have recommended
>that you enable it..

yep. that fixed it. I went home on my lunch break and built a new kernel. it
works! :) dunno why I had that turned off in the first place. ignorance, I
guess. :)

on a side note; this option (plus one more related option I built in) adds
~6K to your kernel size. (I'm up to a 446K kernel). :)

these are the only modules I have built:
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m
CONFIG_PACKET=m
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m

how much does module support add to your kernel? would it be sensible to
build all this stuff into a monolithic kernel, and do without the module
support?

or should I build more stuff as modules, to make the kernel smaller?

Carl Soderstrom
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