On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Currently, depmod and modprobe can only use directories of the form
>> ROOT/lib/modules/VERSION, where ROOT and VERSION can be specified on
>> the command line.  Additionally, when used with explicitly-listed
>> modules depmod requires absolute paths, making it difficult to
>> generate a nonstandard module layout without symlink hacks and
>> absolute paths.
>>
>> This lifts both restrictions with a new --moddir option.  --moddir
>> specifies an exact directory name and, when --moddir is used, depmod
>> will accept relative module paths on the command line.
>
> Will an approach like this be okay (possibly with further changes) or
> do I need to find some hack to get existing depmod and modprobe
> binaries to work?
>

Hi-

A quick ping on this, now that kmod 17 is out :)

Thanks,
Andy
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