Re: Bug#257738: kernel-headers basically useless

2004-07-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 19:57:01 +0200, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Package: kernel Severity: normal > To my understanding, kernel-headers are to be used in compiling > kernel modules. However, quite a few modules require > $KERNELSOURCE/drivers, others try to execute `make modules` i

Bug#257738: kernel-headers basically useless

2004-07-05 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 19:57:01 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: [...] > > Either I am doing something wrong, or the kernel-headers packages > are really not needed anymore. > They most certainly are needed. Modules should be unpacked in /usr/src/modules, and then one can do a `make-kpkg --append_to

Bug#257738: kernel-headers basically useless

2004-07-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * martin f krafft [Mon, Jul 05 2004, 07:57:01PM]: > To my understanding, kernel-headers are to be used in compiling > kernel modules. However, quite a few modules require > $KERNELSOURCE/drivers, If they don't describe it in the manual, file bugs. > others try to execute `make modules

Bug#257738: kernel-headers basically useless

2004-07-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:57:01PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Package: kernel > Severity: normal > > To my understanding, kernel-headers are to be used in compiling > kernel modules. However, quite a few modules require > $KERNELSOURCE/drivers, others try to execute `make modules` in the > KS

Bug#257738: kernel-headers basically useless

2004-07-05 Thread martin f krafft
Package: kernel Severity: normal To my understanding, kernel-headers are to be used in compiling kernel modules. However, quite a few modules require $KERNELSOURCE/drivers, others try to execute `make modules` in the KSRC directory, and yet others only work with make-kpkg, which requires the kerne