On 6/29/07, Kostik Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It would be very convenient to have unified location for ports kernel
modules. May be, even hier(7) compliant ?
For instance, some random set of ports installed kernel modules to:
sysutils/devcpu: /boot/modules/cpu.ko
net/ng_car: /boot/kernel/ng_car.ko
(this means that ng_car.ko module will be trashed on next kernel update)
audio/oss: /usr/local/lib/oss/modules
I would propose that kernel module ports should install their
KLD(s)into /boot/modules, as that would allow the kernel module to be
loaded without specifing a path to the module:
kldload <module name>
instead of:
kldload /path/to/module/<module name>.ko
And allow the KLD to be loaded from /boot/loader.conf.
Another option would be to allow only specific types of modules to be
placed into /boot/modules (network, filesystem, ...) and then have the
remaining modules installed into PREFIX/libexec/kernel_modules (audio,
...). A rc script for the module would then be used to load/unload
the module.
Scot
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