Vladimir Vassilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the input. Do you think that if the application startup > scripts take the whole responsibility of insmod-ing the drivers it would > be possible to use a different place than > /lib/modules/<version-of-kernel>/extra ? Then I hope doing a proper > depmod would not be necessary. I guess the user has to provide the > kernel sources/configuration path (Example: ./configure > --linux-kernel-path=/usr/src/linux) so it is passed to the linux module > build invocation.
I guess you could do that, but it scares me. I generally don't expect running an application to install a new kernel module. But I guess that would work around some of the integration issues. Note that you'll still need to build a new module every time the kernel API changes (which changes more frequently than the version). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
