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? --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
