svn commit: r358923 - in head: lib/libpmcstat usr.sbin/pmcstat

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 6:35 PM Kyle Evans <self at kyle-evans.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 6:05 PM Ryan Moeller <freqlabs at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > Author: freqlabs
> > Date: Thu Mar 12 23:04:40 2020
> > New Revision: 358923
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/358923
> >
> > Log:
> >   libpmcstat: Try /boot/modules if module not found
> >
> >   Modules from ports/pkg are commonly installed to /boot/modules rather
> than to
> >   the same directory the kernel resides in.  Look there if a module is
> not found
> >   next to the kernel.
> >
> >   Submitted by: mmacy
> >   Reported by:  Nick Principe <nap at iXsystems.com>
> >   Approved by:  mmacy (mentor)
> >   MFC after:    2 weeks
> >   Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
> >
>
> It's unclear from the context- is there any particular reason this
> can't instead using sysctl kern.module_path and accept a semicolon
> delimited list of directories for -k (maybe calling it -k kernelpath
> instead)?
>

There are also #defines for these paths.

Warner

Thanks,
>
> Kyle Evans
>