Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:58:17 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing /boot/modules from BSD.root.dist Message-ID: <20021115135817.GC53986@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0211151345450.23596-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <20021115133518.GB53986@sunbay.com> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0211151345450.23596-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>
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--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
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