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Message-ID: <20230718134511.GY9196@kitsune.suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:45:11 +0200
From:   Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@...e.de>
To:     Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
Cc:     linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>,
        Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        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: Re: [PATCH kmod v4 4/4] libkmod, depmod, modprobe: Make directory
 for kernel modules configurable

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 02:42:42PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 2023-07-18 14:27, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> >> >
> >> >That breaks kmod for the usrmerged distributions, though.
> >> 
> >> Does it though?
> >> The *distro* has /lib -> /usr/lib,
> >> the *staging area* for installation does not.
> >
> >Yes, currently the fully installed distribution has the symlink, at
> >least openSUSE does.
> >
> >However, there is a goal to remove it eventually, and even now it is not
> >present at all times.
> 
> The ELF interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is hardcoded everywhere.

Sure, there are other problems.

I will leave that for others that are familiar with that part of the
system.

Thanks

Michal

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