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Subject: Re: Why is tulip in its own directory (at least to 2.4.8) ? 
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On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 20:37:07 +0100 (BST), 
Ken Moffat <ken@kenmoffat.uklinux.net> wrote:
>I've just changed the NIC on my main box from a natsemi to a tulip. The
>natsemi module was in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net along
>with the ppp modules, but the tulip module is in a tulip subdirectory.

The module install directory tree follows the source tree structure.
All the module tools know about this directory structure.  Do not hard
code pathnames in insmod, just "insmod tulip" and let the tools do
their job.