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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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