Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ANN: LKMB (Linux Kernel Module Builder) version 0.1.16 | Date | Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:03:04 +0100 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> > Whoever invented this /lib/modules/... scheme should have known that > > it provokes this sort of misunderstandings, not to mention is broken > > in other ways too. > > it was Linus who decreed this to be the standard;)
no matter who decreed it. Even Linus may be wrong sometimes.
> yes, and most of the time you want to compile against the currently > running kernel, at which point `uname -r` comes in handy; for other > kernels you just change the path a bit. > make install and make modules_install make the symlink right already.... > it's a 99% solution, sure, but it's ok for all but a few cases.
And what's exactly wrong with the other 99% solution of putting it in /usr/src/linux-`uname -r` ? This has exactly the same advantages but doesn't mix up between development and runtime environment; /usr/src is clearly where source belongs and /lib/modules is an install target.
Even Linus has finally accepted that the root of the source tree is best called linux-$VERSION rather than just linux, so this is not an obstacle either.
Olaf
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