Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 13:32:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where are kernel modules located? Message-ID: <200110212032.f9LKW5i00865@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:05:56 EDT." <Pine.SOL.4.21.0110211403550.28717-100000@onyx>
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> Could you please tell me where in the source the KLD location is
> determined? I found out that the KLD can be loaded under / in 4.3-Release
> even if I have a newer copy under /modules. This gives me a lot of
> trouble debugging.
It shouldn't give you a lot of trouble because you should never have any
modules in /.
The reason / is searched is because modules and the kernel are searched
for using the same path.
The default module search path is in /sys/boot/common/modules.c,
unsuprisingly it's called "default_searchpath".
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