From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 15 6:22:58 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 35D8F37B40F; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:22:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from MX2.estpak.ee (mta1.mail.neti.ee [194.126.101.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66EC544047; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:11:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kalts@estpak.ee) Received: from tiiu.internal (80-235-37-22-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.37.22]) by MX2.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37E073536; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:09:47 +0200 (EET) Received: from tiiu.internal (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tiiu.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAFEAhTE002491; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:10:43 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vallo@tiiu.internal) Received: (from vallo@localhost) by tiiu.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAFEAhKV002490; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:10:43 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vallo) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:10:43 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Gavin Atkinson , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing /boot/modules from BSD.root.dist Message-ID: <20021115141043.GB2174@tiiu.internal> Reply-To: kalts@estpak.ee References: <20021115084021.GA29453@sunbay.com> <20021115133518.GB53986@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021115133518.GB53986@sunbay.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i-ja.1 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, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:35:18PM +0200, 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. This is bad practice. The /boot/modules directory was discussed long time ago and meant to third-party modules as I remember. That's why I haven't discarded it locally. Even if ports have rules to install everything under ports-dir they should install kernel modules into /boot/modules. Otherwise it's a sphagetti to manage. The IMHO thing applies to this message also quite well. -- Vallo Kallaste kalts@estpak.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message