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

[Michal Suchánek]

Hello,

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 03:59:17PM +0200, Michal Koutný wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 03:38:18PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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".
> 
> That sounds cleaner but I'm worried it would be a BC break in setups
> that expect the existing layout under INSTALL_MOD_PATH, wouldn't it?

It's a break either way, the expected directory righ now is exactly
/lib/modules. /usr/lib/modules works to some extent for some use cases
only when the compatibility symlink lib -> usr/lib is present.

Thanks

Michal