Hello experts,

I have a custom kernel module foo.ko that I want to be loaded when the system boots. I know that I can move it to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/...., add entry inside /etc/modules and it will work.

However, my requirement is bit different: I want to load it from a different directory. How can I tell modprobe to look into the /mypath/lib/modules directory instead of /lib/modules?

Additionally I want to perform some additional tasks such as using mknod to create some files in /dev.

I can do all this with an init.d script but I believe there's a better way out there.

Please help. Thanks for your time.

Version: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server edition

Hi,

You can use insmod to load a module from a directory other than /lib/modules/`uname -r".
For the rest I don't know, but usually it's the module that creates a special device in /dev

Regards

Thanks for the reply bathory!! I know I can use insmod, but that'd be like using a script to execute on start-up.

There would be some configuration that tells modprobe to look into /lib/modules/xxx. I wanted to explore that.