Re: [PATCH] modprobe.d: load from /usr/lib.

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On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:56:05PM -0800, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 8:06 AM Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > There is an ongoing effort to limit use of files outside of /usr (or
> > $prefix on general). Currently all modprobe.d paths are hardcoded to
> > outside of $prefix. Teach kmod to load modprobe.d from $prefix/lib.
> 
> /lib came from module-init-tools and we kept it for compatibility. It
> became a non-issue when distros
> decided to just merge them and do a symlink /lib -> /usr/lib following
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/
> 
> what distros didn't do that?

FWiW, we decided not to do TheUsrMerge at all.


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