Proper Way to Install OpenAFS Kernel Module
Jason C. Wells
jcw at highperformance.net
Sat Oct 2 10:56:54 PDT 2004
--On Saturday, October 02, 2004 1:16 AM -0600 Robin Schoonover
<end at endif.cjb.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:17:18 -0700
> "Jason C. Wells" <jcw at highperformance.net> wrote:
>> Is there a pre-existing means in the ports system for installing a
>> kernel module?
> Take a look at how x11/nvidia-driver and net/nvnet do it.
> (@cwd in pkg-plist in particular) Those ports do pretty much exactly the
> same thing you want to do. (So you can see that there isn't much
> for preexisting functionality).
This sounds like an appropriate avenue. I'll look into it.
> Don't forget to put your kernel module in /boot/modules, not
> /boot/kernel, otherwise it'll get nuked on kernel install (nvnet does
> this wrong)
I figured that one out already. (Hey, where'd my module go?)
Later,
Jason C. Wells
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