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? :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University | kernel panic -- causal failure [EMAIL PROTECTED] | universe will now reboot http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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