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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-06-22 21:14:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-06-22 21:14:23 +0200 |
| commit | 528b6a3dcea1edab7a8d1ce62a616a0ff6c8c597 (patch) | |
| tree | 18e11dbb4fa12fe28811c3b904a133abdc470510 | |
| parent | d7d42d6b242518b5bc664d7e2644a2a78d15225a (diff) | |
gnu: kmod: Honor $LINUX_MODULE_DIRECTORY.
* gnu/packages/patches/kmod-module-directory.patch: New file.
* gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
* gnu/packages/linux.scm (kmod)[origin]: Use it.
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu-system.am | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/linux.scm | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/patches/kmod-module-directory.patch | 31 |
3 files changed, 34 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu-system.am b/gnu-system.am index eb3c55d180..3c057b36d8 100644 --- a/gnu-system.am +++ b/gnu-system.am @@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA = \ gnu/packages/patches/hop-bigloo-4.0b.patch \ gnu/packages/patches/icu4c-test-date-format.patch \ gnu/packages/patches/inkscape-stray-comma.patch \ + gnu/packages/patches/kmod-module-directory.patch \ gnu/packages/patches/libevent-dns-tests.patch \ gnu/packages/patches/libffi-mips-n32-fix.patch \ gnu/packages/patches/liboop-mips64-deplibs-fix.patch \ diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm index 9c5d59ce70..841ec581d9 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm @@ -1204,7 +1204,8 @@ to use Linux' inotify mechanism, which allows file accesses to be monitored.") "kmod-" version ".tar.xz")) (sha256 (base32 - "1yid3a9b64a60ybj66fk2ysrq5klnl0ijl4g624cl16y8404g9rv")))) + "1yid3a9b64a60ybj66fk2ysrq5klnl0ijl4g624cl16y8404g9rv")) + (patches (list (search-patch "kmod-module-directory.patch"))))) (build-system gnu-build-system) (native-inputs `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config))) 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; |