Hello, On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 03:59:17PM +0200, Michal Koutný wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 03:38:18PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ok, so if the problem statement is that hardcoded paths are bad, then why > > continue to hardcode the "/lib/modules" fragment? Just make it so that > > KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX can be set to the exact string "/usr/lib/modules" and not > > just "/usr". > > That sounds cleaner but I'm worried it would be a BC break in setups > that expect the existing layout under INSTALL_MOD_PATH, wouldn't it? It's a break either way, the expected directory righ now is exactly /lib/modules. /usr/lib/modules works to some extent for some use cases only when the compatibility symlink lib -> usr/lib is present. Thanks Michal