> I configured 2.1.125 _not_ to include AX25, AppleTalk, or IPX.
> Yet for some reason, when /sbin/ifconfig tries to create sockets
> of those types, the kernel spawns "modprobe net-pf-[345]".
>
> Why? Those modules are never there!
Because the high level socket() code doesn't have special cases for all
kinds of strange socket types, but instead just has a generic table. If
it can't find the socket family in the table it'll try to request the
module.
The 2.1 socket code is modular enough that CONFIG_<type>=m is equivalent
to CONFIG_<type>=n. I don't think that it would be worth the additional
code and complexeties just to make it distingush between these two states
for a protocol. It would be much better to just fix net-tools to check
for the appropiate /proc/net files first before opening these sockets.
-Andi
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