Re: debian-installer kernel policy
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:21:51PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:20:58AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > > Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:
> > > > I believe the unix socket support can be in a module, as this is done
> > > > in the i386 kernel at the moment. I'm not sure if the tmpfs support
> > > > is needed. I'm not sure if devfs can be a module, or if it must
> > > > included in the kernel.
> > >
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > Whats needing Unix Domain Sockets at boottime?
> >
> > syslogd.
>
> When is that started? Before loading modules from a second floppy?
No, but the kernel uses it to log a few messages before the
modules have a chance to load. It will just print a message about
a missing module if it is not compiled in, so it's not critical.
--
Matt
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