svn commit: r299393 - in head: . share/mk

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Mon May 30 05:22:04 UTC 2016


On 27/05/2016 2:28 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 03:27:07 PM Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> On 05/11/16 00:32, John Baldwin wrote:
>>> Author: jhb
>>> Date: Tue May 10 22:32:23 2016
>>> New Revision: 299393
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/299393
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>    Change the default installation directory for modules to /boot/modules.
>>>
>>>    Kernel installs always override KMODDIR when installing modules, so
>>>    this default setting is only used for standalone module builds.  Many
>>>    out-of-tree modules manually override KMODDIR already to avoid placing
>>>    modules in /boot/kernel.  This now makes that behavior the default.
>>>
>>>    Discussed on:	arch@
>>>    Reviewed by:	imp
>>>    Relnotes:	yes
>>>
>> Just a small nit:
>>
>> There is a comment in bsd.own.mk which needs updating too:
>>
>>> #
>>> # KMODDIR       Base path for loadable kernel modules
>>> #               (see kld(4)). [/boot/kernel]
> Oops, thanks.  Fixed.

the comment should also mention it does not cover in-tree modules.





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