Re: where to install additional kernel modules?

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:00:47PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> i see pcmcia-source and comedi-source installing the modules into
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/pcmcia and /lib/modules/`uname -r`/comedi.
> my bcm4400-source and bcm5700-source packages install into
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/bcm.
> 
> Thinking about it, I argue that it would be better to install them
> into /lib/modules/`uname -r`/bcm since
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel is the hierarchy used by the
> kernel-image and should not be touched by additional modules that
> are not part of the kernel image.
> 
> is there a policy item that covers this? what do people think?

the right place is /lib/modules/${kver}/${package}