From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 15 5:52: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD6837B408; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 05:52:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from pump3.york.ac.uk (pump3.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D28543E3B; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 05:52:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (ury.york.ac.uk [144.32.108.81]) by pump3.york.ac.uk (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id gAFDpwF26413; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:51:58 GMT Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (localhost.york.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gAFDpvSf024023; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:51:57 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id gAFDpv8t024020; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:51:57 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:51:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Subject: Re: Removing /boot/modules from BSD.root.dist In-Reply-To: <20021115133518.GB53986@sunbay.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:47:59PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > Anyone objects to this patch? > > > > Yes - this is the only place to put modules which are not built as part > > of the kernel, for example /usr/ports/comms/ltmdm. > > > This port puts it under /usr/local/share/ltmdm/ltmdm.ko. OK, it may have been a bad example, but I prefer having my kernel modules loaded via the standard loader.conf method rather than using kldload for modules which I always want to exist. /boot/modules has been documented as being in the search path for modules for ages now, it seems unnecessary to change this. I think that we do need somewhere on the root partition where modules can be kept, without them being lost on the next upgrade. Gavin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message