In the last episode (Nov 15), Ruslan Ermilov said:
> Yes, the standard search path is /boot/kernel;/boot/modules;/modules.
> Nevertheless, we don't create /modules, why should we create /boot/modules?
> When you say ``documented'', what do you mean? ``grep -r /boot/modules
> doc/en_US.ISO8859-1'' returns nothing. Do you mean kldconfig(8) only?
I think /modules is in the path because that's where 3rd-party modules
went in 4.*, and is just there for compatibility. Putting them in
/boot/modules lets you (theoretically) have a small /boot partition
with just the files required to get the kernel booted and root mounted.
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