Re: Path to kmods

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:04:19PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:

> 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.

We may also want blobs or configuration files or whatever, which is why
modules is a subdirectory currently.
 
> Rationale: most of the code in the kernel is not really "kernel" code.
> Eventually I want to modload kernel modules in userspace programs.

While I think that is interesting it is a bit peripheral.

Andrew