> I see. Well, MODPREF controls where the modules get installed. > That should be the same as the kernel that we compiled against, > which is the one defined in LINUX:= . > So don't you think MODPREF should do the "-L" thing? > But I don't know what happens if we default to /usr/src/linux... If we default to /usr/src/linux, it means that we don't use the release of the currently running version of Linux. So, KERNELVERSION is useless. The only way we have to know where the modules should be installed is to look in /usr/src/linux and see where this kernel has installed its modules. This is exactly what is done right now. If we didn't default to /usr/src/linux, it means that we know where to install the modules, and we could use KERNELVERSION. But, on the other hand, we built LINUX from KERNELVERSION (through the build symlink), so the method above will also work. I don't see the point in creating a complex expression that does different things for these two cases when the first one will work for both (and has obviously proven to work well for years). -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
