From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 15 6:27:20 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 3811237B401; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:27:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (mailhub.fokus.gmd.de [193.174.154.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAB5743E8A; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:27:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brandt@fokus.gmd.de) Received: from beagle (beagle [193.175.132.100]) by mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAFERA408629; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:27:10 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:27:10 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Gavin Atkinson , Subject: Re: Removing /boot/modules from BSD.root.dist In-Reply-To: <20021115135817.GC53986@sunbay.com> Message-ID: <20021115151711.O2812-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> 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: RE>On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:51:57PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote: RE>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: RE>> > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:47:59PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote: RE>> > > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: RE>> > > RE>> > > > Anyone objects to this patch? RE>> > > RE>> > > Yes - this is the only place to put modules which are not built as part RE>> > > of the kernel, for example /usr/ports/comms/ltmdm. RE>> > > RE>> > This port puts it under /usr/local/share/ltmdm/ltmdm.ko. RE>> RE>> OK, it may have been a bad example, but I prefer having my kernel modules RE>> loaded via the standard loader.conf method rather than using kldload for RE>> modules which I always want to exist. /boot/modules has been documented as RE>> being in the search path for modules for ages now, it seems unnecessary to RE>> change this. I think that we do need somewhere on the root partition where RE>> modules can be kept, without them being lost on the next upgrade. RE>> RE>Yes, the standard search path is /boot/kernel;/boot/modules;/modules. RE>Nevertheless, we don't create /modules, why should we create /boot/modules? Because then Makefiles don't have to fiddle with creating directories. I don't have a rule for creating /usr/bin in every Makefile that installs into /usr/bin. Why should I have one for /boot/modules? harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.gmd.de, brandt@fokus.fhg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message