Re: 2.3.13-pre1 patches
Petr Vandrovec Ing. VTEI (VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz)
Sun, 1 Aug 1999 17:57:56 MET-1
On 1 Aug 99 at 17:41, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Petr> (2)
> Petr> because of compilation take 4 hrs on that hardware, and only
> Petr> thing it did was Starting init... reboot..., I tried to build
> Petr> minimal working kernel (with PF_UNIX, but without SYSCTL). I
> Petr> found two sysctl symbols unconditionaly exported from netsyms.c
> I think it was me who added these exports, they do not depend on
> sysctl but are used by the general networking code. I asume the reason
> they are labelled sysctl_foo is because they are also accessible via
> the sysctl interface.
> However these variables must be exported even if sysctl is disabled as
> some devices (HIPPI which have a 64KB MTU) needs to be able to set
> larger default socket buffer limits to work correctly.
Sorry, then. I do not understand, why my kernel complained about these
two exports. When I'm rereading kernel sources, it is impossible to happen.
Probably some file was left around from previous build (absolutely no
networking -> unix).
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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