Default N wasn't exactly a decision. It was a lack of experience
on my part. Thanks to the person who changed them to default Y on the
i386 architectures :) Below is the patch to make them default Y on the
other platforms.
-- Bye, Kirk Petersen http://www.muppetlabs.com/~kirk/
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diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-foo/arch/alpha/defconfig linux/arch/alpha/defconfig --- linux-foo/arch/alpha/defconfig Sun Dec 28 21:02:16 1997 +++ linux/arch/alpha/defconfig Sun Dec 28 21:03:00 1997 @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ # CONFIG_NETLINK is not set # CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set # CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set +CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set # CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-foo/arch/m68k/defconfig linux/arch/m68k/defconfig --- linux-foo/arch/m68k/defconfig Sun Dec 28 21:02:22 1997 +++ linux/arch/m68k/defconfig Sun Dec 28 21:03:10 1997 @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ # CONFIG_NETLINK is not set # CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set # CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set +CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set # CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-foo/arch/mips/defconfig linux/arch/mips/defconfig --- linux-foo/arch/mips/defconfig Sun Dec 28 21:02:19 1997 +++ linux/arch/mips/defconfig Sun Dec 28 21:03:22 1997 @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ # CONFIG_NETLINK is not set # CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set # CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set +CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set # CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-foo/arch/ppc/defconfig linux/arch/ppc/defconfig --- linux-foo/arch/ppc/defconfig Sun Dec 28 21:02:21 1997 +++ linux/arch/ppc/defconfig Sun Dec 28 21:03:33 1997 @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ # CONFIG_NETLINK is not set # CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set # CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set +CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set # CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-foo/arch/sparc/defconfig linux/arch/sparc/defconfig --- linux-foo/arch/sparc/defconfig Sun Dec 28 21:02:16 1997 +++ linux/arch/sparc/defconfig Sun Dec 28 21:03:44 1997 @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ CONFIG_FIREWALL=y # CONFIG_NET_SECURITY is not set CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y +CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-foo/arch/sparc64/defconfig linux/arch/sparc64/defconfig --- linux-foo/arch/sparc64/defconfig Sun Dec 28 21:02:24 1997 +++ linux/arch/sparc64/defconfig Sun Dec 28 21:03:55 1997 @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ # CONFIG_NETLINK is not set # CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set # CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set +CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set # CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set