# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
bool "Networking support"
Unless you really know what you are doing, you should say Y here.
The reason is that some programs need kernel networking support even
when running on a stand-alone machine that isn't connected to any
If you are upgrading from an older kernel, you
should consider updating your networking tools too because changes
in the kernel and the tools often go hand in hand. The tools are
contained in the package net-tools, the location and version number
of which are given in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
For a general introduction to Linux networking, it is highly
recommended to read the NET-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
config WANT_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES
This option can be selected by other options that need compat
config COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES
depends on WEXT_CORE || WANT_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES
This option makes it possible to send different netlink messages
to tasks depending on whether the task is a compat task or not. To
achieve this, you need to set skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list to the
compat skb before sending the skb, the netlink code will sort out