I would research the dependance of tools like depmod to function as expected if a kernel module were placed outside the /lib/modules/....... path.
Mike M. On Thursday 21 February 2002 10:51 am, you wrote: > John F Davis [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Hello > > > > At work we debating the location of module files. We are building some > > custom modules > > and I'm thinking that they don't need to be in the lib/modules/2.4.x/misc > > dir. Especially since > > we can have more than one version of the module. > > Well, what do they do? There's a bunch of module 'types' in > /lib/modules/2.4.x/kernel/drivers/ > > > Has anybody ever seen a module outside the lib/modules/2.4.x filesystem? > > Yeah, actually. The wireless LAN drivers can be used without being > installed in the 'main' modules directory. > > It's non-standard to not put them in the main modules directory, but > certainly doable. > > Mike
