[OpenAFS-devel] MODVERSIONS patch

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+afs@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> 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.

And I will admit that that is precisely why I put it there.  I have
been using the debian packaging of the openafs sources.

-- 
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)