On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
