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

[John Baldwin]

On Monday, May 30, 2016 01:21:50 PM Julian Elischer wrote:
> 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.

Actually, it does.  If you cd /sys/modules/foo and run make install it
installs to this path.  Only buildkernel overrides this explicitly
when installing the modules built together with a kernel.

-- 
John Baldwin