From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
To: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michal Suchanek" <msuchanek@suse.de>,
linux-modules <linux-modules@vger.kernel.org>,
"Marcus Rückert" <mrueckert@suse.com>,
"Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@suse.com>,
"Dominique Leuenberger" <dimstar@opensuse.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modprobe.d: load from /usr/lib.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 01:22:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210112222226.GA31541@altlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKi4VAJKxUVtqFGkCkeL5hc+Uuyh94Nzt+c1zLpSEdbvzjjwaQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:56:05PM -0800, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 8:06 AM Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > There is an ongoing effort to limit use of files outside of /usr (or
> > $prefix on general). Currently all modprobe.d paths are hardcoded to
> > outside of $prefix. Teach kmod to load modprobe.d from $prefix/lib.
>
> /lib came from module-init-tools and we kept it for compatibility. It
> became a non-issue when distros
> decided to just merge them and do a symlink /lib -> /usr/lib following
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/
>
> what distros didn't do that?
FWiW, we decided not to do TheUsrMerge at all.
--
ldv
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-12 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-12 16:02 [PATCH] modprobe.d: load from /usr/lib Michal Suchanek
2021-01-12 20:56 ` Lucas De Marchi
2021-01-12 22:22 ` Dmitry V. Levin [this message]
2021-01-13 14:08 ` Lucas De Marchi
2021-01-14 9:54 ` Michal Suchánek
2021-05-30 9:39 ` Michal Suchánek
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