[gentoo-dev] NVIDIA ebuild question - kernel module location

[gentoo-dev] NVIDIA ebuild question - kernel module location

[David Mott]

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Hi,

Firstly let me thank all the developers for a great distro. As this is my 
first post I thought I should thank everyone for the effort.

Now to my question. In the nvidia-kernel ebuild, the kernel module is placed 
in /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/kernel/video

This means that a recompiled kernel, specifically a make modules_install will 
overwrite the NVdriver file in /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/kernel/video

Wouldn't a more appropriate place be /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/video like 
the alsa modules go into /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/misc ???

Just a thought. Have a great day.

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David Mott
"The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove 
anything. Oops. No, that's not what I meant to say." -- Joel Spolsky
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Re: [gentoo-dev] NVIDIA ebuild question - kernel module location

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 17:55, David Mott wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> Firstly let me thank all the developers for a great distro. As this is my 
> first post I thought I should thank everyone for the effort.
> 
> Now to my question. In the nvidia-kernel ebuild, the kernel module is placed 
> in /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/kernel/video
> 
> This means that a recompiled kernel, specifically a make modules_install will 
> overwrite the NVdriver file in /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/kernel/video
> 
> Wouldn't a more appropriate place be /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/video like 
> the alsa modules go into /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/misc ???
> 
> Just a thought. Have a great day.
> 

In my experience they are too kernel specific, and prob wont
load.  I could be wrong though for new versions.

> - -- 
> David Mott
> "The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove 
> anything. Oops. No, that's not what I meant to say." -- Joel Spolsky
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Martin Schlemmer
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