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Re: RFC: packaging kernel modules



On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 06:47:57PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 10:41:41AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > I think the various modules should be primarily packaged in source
> > form, just as the kernel is, and installed under /usr/src/modules/.
> 
> This sounds excellent. On one machine I am running 2.0.33
> and have the appropriate ntfs package installed, but it will not insert
> (many missing symbols), presumably because it is my own compilation
> of 2.0.33. Similarly I just upgraded another box to 2.0.34 and have
> installed ftape-3.04d from sources. It is presently much easier to work
> with sources to such kernel addons, imho.

For the sake of raging paranoia about namespace pollution, perhaps the
directory is best called "kernel-modules".

Other than that, sounds like a great idea.  Is Manoj listening?  :)

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