From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 15 5:58:31 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 5D7D437B401 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 05:58:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC88643E6E for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 05:58:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6/Sunbay) with ESMTP id gAFDwH5V064960 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:58:17 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAFDwHw4064955; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:58:17 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:58:17 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Gavin Atkinson Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing /boot/modules from BSD.root.dist Message-ID: <20021115135817.GC53986@sunbay.com> References: <20021115133518.GB53986@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GPJrCs/72TxItFYR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 --GPJrCs/72TxItFYR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:51:57PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > 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 pa= rt > > > of the kernel, for example /usr/ports/comms/ltmdm. > > > > > This port puts it under /usr/local/share/ltmdm/ltmdm.ko. >=20 > 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. >=20 Yes, the standard search path is /boot/kernel;/boot/modules;/modules. Nevertheless, we don't create /modules, why should we create /boot/modules? When you say ``documented'', what do you mean? ``grep -r /boot/modules doc/en_US.ISO8859-1'' returns nothing. Do you mean kldconfig(8) only? Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --GPJrCs/72TxItFYR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE91P15Ukv4P6juNwoRAkD9AJ4pGI6iD9uNP2f/TnjvU8CyPdLLqgCcDqmT omSaYhNqAZkAWi2Jxx8tRHg= =fTa2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GPJrCs/72TxItFYR-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message