Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: ANN: LKMB (Linux Kernel Module Builder) version 0.1.16 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | 20 Jan 2003 22:39:19 +0100 |
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> 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.
back then the argument (not mine btw) was that /usr on a lot of machines is RO (I think debian has an option for that) so that sysadmins there compile stuff in /root. /lib/modules however IS standardized and needs to be writable to install a new kernel so making a symlink to the real place there isn't too bad. In addition it already is the only directory with per kernel files.. adding a second one was judged not needed. It has to be somewhere. /lib/modules/ or /usr/src.. who cares. Linus made the final call and everybody complies with it since then, just because it doesn't matter THAT much. It just needs to be SOMEWHERE standard and /lib/modules suffices so far it seems. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]
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