On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Lucas De Marchi
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This is a broken option that only leads to misery and incompatabilities
>> with other systems. Kbuild doesn't come close to supporting this option
>> with several targets simply failing without hacky fixes. Simply the
>> remove the option and all traces of it, as it doesn't make sense in
>> today's world.
>> ---
>> I suspect that if anyone was actually using this option, they would have
>> already posted here, expressing their frustration with it. I guess I'll
>> be the first.
>
>
> This was added back in kmod 4 by Kay (CC'ing him). If memory serves
> well it's was due to the /usr move (helped by git-blame,
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git;a=commit;h=a308abec371364eec8344681cfe1fb50d624e43e.
>
> Fedora was using it
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/kmod.git/commit/?id=706525306b0e8272c6819e9ab400561d719bb2a8
> but not anymore.
>
> Kay, thoughts?

It's dead. No objections to kill it.

Thanks,
Kay
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