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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages/patches/kmod-module-directory.patch')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/patches/kmod-module-directory.patch | 31 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/kmod-module-directory.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/kmod-module-directory.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b4b1a3b3db --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/kmod-module-directory.patch @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +This patch changes libkmod so it honors the 'LINUX_MODULE_DIRECTORY' +environment variable, rather than looking for modules exclusively in +/lib/modules. + +Patch by Shea Levy, from Nixpkgs; adjusted to use 'LINUX_MODULE_DIRECTORY' +rather than 'MODULE_DIR' as the variable name. + + +--- kmod-7/libkmod/libkmod.c 2012-03-15 08:19:16.750010226 -0400 ++++ kmod-7/libkmod/libkmod.c 2012-04-04 15:21:29.532074313 -0400 +@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ + static char *get_kernel_release(const char *dirname) + { + struct utsname u; +- char *p; ++ char *p, *dirname_prefix; + + if (dirname != NULL) + return path_make_absolute_cwd(dirname); +@@ -208,7 +208,10 @@ + if (uname(&u) < 0) + return NULL; + +- if (asprintf(&p, "%s/%s", dirname_default_prefix, u.release) < 0) ++ if ((dirname_prefix = getenv("LINUX_MODULE_DIRECTORY")) == NULL) ++ dirname_prefix = dirname_default_prefix; ++ ++ if (asprintf(&p, "%s/%s", dirname_prefix, u.release) < 0) + return NULL; + + return p; |