Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: Given an image, how can show its config? | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:59:05 +1100 |
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On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 14:15:44 +0100 (BST), James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> wrote: >How about putting these files in the modules directory? That way, we have >a nice consistent location for them.
Why do you think modutils 2.3.14 added a prune list of files to ignore in /lib/modules/`uname -r`? The current (2.3.17) list from modprobe -c is
# Prune prune modules.dep prune modules.pcimap prune System.map prune .config prune build prune vmlinux prune vmlinuz prune bzImage prune zImage
The 2.5 Makefiles rewrite will create /lib/modules/`uname -r`, even if you do not use modules (Hi, Rusty ;) and install the kernel specific output files in it. There will also be enough information saved in /lib/modules to allow external compilation of third party software without having to guess what the kernel compile options were, this includes module symbol version information. This is all covered in
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/kbuild/makefile-wishlist-2.5-4.bz2.
The Makefile rewrite is definitely a 2.5 project, it is too big a change for 2.4. Whether we rename /lib/modules to /lib/kernel has not been decided yet. BTW, any discussion about this rewrite should be on the linux-kbuild list, not linux-kernel (yet). See 2.4.0-test9-pre6 MAINTAINERS.
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