Re: module name clash

Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 20:53:28 -0500


How about the following design: change the structure of
/lib/modules/$VERSION from its current one-level structure to a tree
with full pathnames:

drivers/block/floppy.o
drivers/cdrom/cdrom.o
drivers/cdrom/cm206.o
drivers/net/foo.o
drivers/sound/bar.o
fs/umsdos/umsdos.o
net/ipv4/ipv4.o

This would forever solve the collision problem. It would also enable
some simplification of the kernel makefiles.

The modutils package would have to support this new multi-level structure
for one or two releases prior to the kernel using it.

(I implemented this in my Dancing Makefiles a long time ago and it
works well for me).

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
<mailto:mec@shout.net>
"love without fear"

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