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Date:   Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:59:17 +0200
From:   Michal =?utf-8?Q?Koutn=C3=BD?= <mkoutny@suse.com>
To:     Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc:     Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] depmod: Handle installing modules under a prefix
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On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 03:38:18PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
> Ok, so if the problem statement is that hardcoded paths are bad, then why
> continue to hardcode the "/lib/modules" fragment? Just make it so that
> KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX can be set to the exact string "/usr/lib/modules" and not
> just "/usr".

That sounds cleaner but I'm worried it would be a BC break in setups
that expect the existing layout under INSTALL_MOD_PATH, wouldn't it?

Michal

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