Hello,

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 03:59:17PM +0200, Michal Koutný wrote:

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 03:38:18PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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?

It's a break either way, the expected directory righ now is exactly
/lib/modules. /usr/lib/modules works to some extent for some use cases
only when the compatibility symlink lib -> usr/lib is present.

Thanks

Michal