Re: The default system module area path

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 10 August 2011 10:53, Marc Balmer <mbalmer%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> Currently, we install kernel modules under the following path
>
> /stand/<arch>/<release>/<name>/<name>.kmod
>
> The duplication of the name probabably was meant to prevent escaping the
> path when a module name like ../../../foo was given on the commandline.
>
> I recently changed the module loading behaviour so that a module that is
> loaded from the default system module area must not, and can not,
> contain a path separator character.
>
> Therefore I suggest that we install modules into
>
> /stand/<arch>/<release>/<name>.kmod
>

Seems excessively sane... (+1)