Hello, it has been a few months since these kmod patches have been posted, and a new kmod versio has been released since. Is there any interest in adding this to kmod? Thanks Michal On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 02:01:51PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > Hello, > > with these patches it is possible to install kernel modules in an arbitrary > directory - eg. moving the /lib/modules to /usr/lib/modules or /opt/linux. > > While the modprobe.d and depmod.d search which already includes multiple > paths is expanded to also include $(prefix) the module directory still > supports only one location, only a different one under $(module_directory). > > Having kmod search multiple module locations while only one is supported now > might break some assumption about relative module path corresponding to a > specific file, would require more invasive changes to implement, and is not > supportive of the goal of moving the modules away from /lib. > > Both kmod and the kernel need to be patched to make use of this feature. > Patched kernel is backwards compatible with older kmod. Patched kmod > with $(module_directory) set to /lib/modules is equivalent to unpatched kmod. > > Thanks > > Michal > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-modules/20210112160211.5614-1-msuchanek@xxxxxxx/ > > v4: set whole path to module directory instead of adding prefix > v5: use pkg-config instead of jq, fix build on openssl without sm3 support > > > Michal Suchanek (5): > configure: Detect openssl sm3 support > man/depmod.d: Fix incorrect /usr/lib search path > libkmod, depmod: Load modprobe.d, depmod.d from ${prefix}/lib. > kmod: Add pkgconfig file with kmod compile time configuration > libkmod, depmod, modprobe: Make directory for kernel modules > configurable > > Makefile.am | 6 +- > configure.ac | 30 ++++++++ > libkmod/libkmod.c | 11 +-- > man/Makefile.am | 10 ++- > man/depmod.d.xml | 9 ++- > man/depmod.xml | 4 +- > man/modinfo.xml | 2 +- > man/modprobe.d.xml | 1 + > man/modprobe.xml | 2 +- > man/modules.dep.xml | 6 +- > testsuite/module-playground/Makefile | 2 +- > testsuite/setup-rootfs.sh | 109 +++++++++++++++------------ > testsuite/test-depmod.c | 16 ++-- > testsuite/test-testsuite.c | 8 +- > tools/depmod.c | 7 +- > tools/kmod.pc.in | 10 +++ > tools/modinfo.c | 4 +- > tools/modprobe.c | 4 +- > tools/static-nodes.c | 6 +- > 19 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 tools/kmod.pc.in > > -- > 2.41.0 >
