Re: policy on GPL'd drivers?

From: M. Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 17:57:47 -0600 (MDT) · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:09 UTC

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            Juli Mallett <jmallett_at_FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
: Jumping in a bit late as I thought someone would point this out, but
: I thought that 3rd-party modules would live in /boot/modules?

third party binary only modules.  If you have source, for some
definition of having source, to rebuild from, then it makes the most
sense to keep it directly with the kernel.  I'd not bother with
symlinks as that just makes things more complicated and I'm not sure
what gain you get from it.

Warner