[OpenAFS-devel] MODVERSIONS patch

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:45:19PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
> 
> > Because that is the standard place kernel modules should go, according
> > to the FHS.  Have I misunderstood the question?
> 
> Yes, you have misunderstood the question.  OpenAFS is not part of the
> Linux Kernel (indeed, it is not Linux-specific in any way).  It
> provides its own location and loading methods for its module.  Why are
> you bypassing those and then trying to backfeed into OpenAFS?  Unless,
> of course, this is in preparation for a Linux kernel code-drop?

Where else would one put a module?  At least the Debian openafs
packages install it in the kernel module directory and load it from
there, which seems the most logical place.


Dan

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