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Re: Path to kmods
On Wed Nov 12 2008 at 16:52:10 +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Andrew Doran wrote:
> >>Regarding the PR/38724, can we change the path to "/kmods/" or something
> >>like that? Would be good to have meaningful name before it gets used
> >>widely.
> >
> >/kernel?
>
> Prior art:
>
> Solaris: /kernel,
> Linux (OpenSuSE 10.2 here): /lib/modules/$(uname -r)
I like the Linux naming. Before your post, I was planning to suggest
/modules, but thought the name is too generic.
Rationale: most of the code in the kernel is not really "kernel" code.
Eventually I want to modload kernel modules in userspace programs.
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