From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040225 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: Is it possible that the DECnet module could be included in the Fedora kernel, if only in the unsupported section. The correct configuration for 2.6 is as follows: CONFIG_DECNET=y # CONFIG_DECNET_SIOCGIFCONF is not set CONFIG_DECNET_ROUTER=y DECnet is perfectly usable and stable in 2.6 (except on big-endian platforms) and, although not a major feature, is used by quite a few people. If it is included in the default kernel for fedora then it will, at least, obviate the need for them to rebuild their kernel. I am packaging the userland programs so I'll take care of any DECnet-related problems that may occur!
CONFIG_DECNET=m I can just about see. CONFIG_DECNET=y no chance!
CONFIG_DECNET=m is, of course, what I really meant. Sorry.
It's too late in the game to change this. If we change this in the kernel, it breaks userspace. We made this mistake briefly in FC1. Without a complete rebuild of userspace using the networking headers, this has no chance of working. Try again for FC3 test1
I don't think that's strictly true. What broke userspace in FC1 was also selecting CONFIG_DECNET_SIOCGIFCONF. Just creating a DECnet module should have no impact on any userspace programs at all. However, I'm not in any real rush...
actually, in 2.4 it broke because the size of struct sock changed depending on which protocols were enabled. This has been changed in 2.6, so that shouldn't be an issue. It still makes me nervous at this stage in the game however.
enabled in tomorrows rawhide.