On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:30:47PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:47:44AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > > what is the DIFFERENCE between kernel-headers-2.4.2 and all the other > > 2.4.2 kernel headers packages? > > Kernel-headers-2.4.2 is built with the default config file, and the > other ones are built with their respective config files. > > > why are they needed? > > For module builders.
I develop/maintain several packages that compile kernel modules outside the kernel source, and understand a lot about what is necessary to compile modules outside the kernel. I have yet to see a header package in any distro that is actually useful in doing non-trivial module compilation -- there's just too much in the kernel that building modules _could_ depend on, such as including Makefile fragments, .config, scripts/makedep, etc. Right now, the rift between what is neccessary (for me) and what is available is so large that I always recommend to people to build their own kernel, even if it is a standard configuration. I'd be willing to help, since I think it is a good goal, but I think this thread is worthless. dave...
