Re: [PATCH v3] depmod: Handle installing modules under a prefix

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Friday 2023-07-14 14:21, Michal Suchanek wrote:

>Some distributions aim at not shipping any files in / outside of usr.
>
>The path under which kernel modules are installed is hardcoded to /lib
>which conflicts with this goal.
>
>+MODLIB	= $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)$(KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)

Ok, so if the problem statement is that hardcoded paths are bad, then why
continue to hardcode the "/lib/modules" fragment? Just make it so that
KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX can be set to the exact string "/usr/lib/modules" and not
just "/usr".