On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 16:40, Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 02:43:51PM +0000, Emil Velikov via B4 Relay wrote: > >From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > >Currently we create symlinks like modprobe (pointing to kmod), during > >the normal `make` build. Although those were never installed. > > > >Add a few lines in the install-exec-hook, to ensure they're present at > >`make install` time. Thus one can actually use those without additional > >changes. As an added bonus, distributions can drop the similar hunk from > >their packaging. > > It was a long time ago and my memory may be fading, but afair the fact > that distros were doing it was what prevented us from adding the > symlinks ourselves.... and then we never re-visited this. > > I'll dig some history before applying to make sure I'm not forgetting > something. > Ack, makes sense. Fwiw I've already opened a MR with the Arch team highlighting these changes. Sadly I don't have contact for other maintainers. > > > >Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >--- > >Out of curiosity: are there any plans about releasing v32? I'm > >interested in the recent /usr/lib/modules (module_directory) patches. > > > yes, I should be releasing that soon, probably this week or the next. > Thanks much appreciated. Emil
