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Message-ID: <cover.1689681454.git.msuchanek@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:01:51 +0200
From: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
To: linux-modules@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>,
Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>,
linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH kmod v5 0/5] kmod /usr support
Hello,
with these patches it is possible to install kernel modules in an arbitrary
directory - eg. moving the /lib/modules to /usr/lib/modules or /opt/linux.
While the modprobe.d and depmod.d search which already includes multiple
paths is expanded to also include $(prefix) the module directory still
supports only one location, only a different one under $(module_directory).
Having kmod search multiple module locations while only one is supported now
might break some assumption about relative module path corresponding to a
specific file, would require more invasive changes to implement, and is not
supportive of the goal of moving the modules away from /lib.
Both kmod and the kernel need to be patched to make use of this feature.
Patched kernel is backwards compatible with older kmod. Patched kmod
with $(module_directory) set to /lib/modules is equivalent to unpatched kmod.
Thanks
Michal
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-modules/20210112160211.5614-1-msuchanek@suse.de/
v4: set whole path to module directory instead of adding prefix
v5: use pkg-config instead of jq, fix build on openssl without sm3 support
Michal Suchanek (5):
configure: Detect openssl sm3 support
man/depmod.d: Fix incorrect /usr/lib search path
libkmod, depmod: Load modprobe.d, depmod.d from ${prefix}/lib.
kmod: Add pkgconfig file with kmod compile time configuration
libkmod, depmod, modprobe: Make directory for kernel modules
configurable
Makefile.am | 6 +-
configure.ac | 30 ++++++++
libkmod/libkmod.c | 11 +--
man/Makefile.am | 10 ++-
man/depmod.d.xml | 9 ++-
man/depmod.xml | 4 +-
man/modinfo.xml | 2 +-
man/modprobe.d.xml | 1 +
man/modprobe.xml | 2 +-
man/modules.dep.xml | 6 +-
testsuite/module-playground/Makefile | 2 +-
testsuite/setup-rootfs.sh | 109 +++++++++++++++------------
testsuite/test-depmod.c | 16 ++--
testsuite/test-testsuite.c | 8 +-
tools/depmod.c | 7 +-
tools/kmod.pc.in | 10 +++
tools/modinfo.c | 4 +-
tools/modprobe.c | 4 +-
tools/static-nodes.c | 6 +-
19 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/kmod.pc.in
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2.41.0
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