[PATCH 2/8] mdev: increase netlink buffer sizes

[Laurent Bercot]

>The socket receive buffer turned out to be too small for real world
>systems. Use the same size as udevd to be on the safe side. As this is
>just a limit and the memory is not allocated by the kernel until really
>needed there is actually no memory wasted.

Is it also the case when overcommit is disabled?
busybox is used in a lot of embedded systems, and some of them disable
overcommit. Committing 128 MiB would make mdev completely unusable.

--
Laurent, who still believes leaving the choice to the user is the
correct approach. https://skarnet.org/software/mdevd/mdevd.html
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