Re: Path to kmods

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:27:30PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Antti Kantee wrote:
> >I like the Linux naming.  Before your post, I was planning to suggest
> >/modules, but thought the name is too generic.
> 
> OK, another idea... maybe that's a bit radical, but so what:
> 
> Currently, /netbsd is "the stuff that is the kernel". To switch to a new 
> kernel (for testing, or whatever), I have to replace /netbsd, e.g. by a 
> symlink to a new/testing kernel, or by replacing the actual file.
> 
> With a modularized kernel, "the stuff that is the kernel" is basically the 
> actual kernel plus modules.
> 
> So, I wonder if we should change /netbsd to a directory that has the 
> actual kernel plus the modules that are associated with that specific 
> (actual) kernel.
> 
> To switch to a new "kernel", I'd have /netbsd either as simple directory 
> or as symlink to something that has my own naming scheme, just as now.
> The choice of the naming scheme would be left to the user, and we could 
> assume to be the "kernel"(-stuff) still be in /netbsd.

And what if you load 'netbsd.old' or 'netbsd.test' from the boot
loader ?

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