Subject: Re: Location of lkm's
To: Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: current-users
Date: 11/20/1996 13:00:46
Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com> writes:
> Why is it that modload is located in /sbin, yet the supplied lkm's are
> all located in /usr/lkm? It seems to me that if modload is in /sbin,
> someone must have realized that non-root files systems, like /usr, might
> not yet be available. Yet the supplied lkm's are, for the most part,
> file systems code which might well be needed before being able to mount
> /usr!
But, since modload uses ld, which lives in /usr/bin...