Re: Version number incorrect on debian

On 10-10-2005 11:32:31 +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:24:40 +0200
> Reinaert Albrecht <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I have a kind of stupid problem with the mga_vid sources on debian. I'm using
> > the debian kernel image and supplied headers to build the packages. Until
> > recently that was no problem at all. But on 2.6.11 and 2.6.12 that doesn't seem
> > to work anymore because the build system puts the wrong version number in the
> > kernel module. This probably has nothing to do with the mga_vid sources but with
> > the build system in debian. Does anybody have the same problem and found a
> > solution or any advice as to how to change the kernel build process in order to
> > make it use the right version number in the kernel modules?
> 
> Yes, this is because the kernel packages from debian are broken.
> Instead of copying all needed header files into 
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build they symlink it. You need to have
> the correct kernel source at the place where this symlink is pointing
> to with the configuration used by the kernel you have running.

Imho I doubt this is the problem. With the version 2.6.8 kernels they used the same
process and I had no trouble at all. Why's that?

Kind regards,

RA

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