Re: Missing makefile

[Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net>]

On 7/31/2013 3:46 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 15:05 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> > On 7/31/2013 2:39 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 10:53 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> > > > And compiling kernel modules is off-topic for debian-user.  It should,
> > > > however, be on-topic here.
> > >
> > > Not really, although I realise the longer description on
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/ could lead you to that
> > > conclusion. As the short description better indicates, debian-devel is
> > > focused on the development of the distribution, rather than development
> > > on or using it.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Adam
> >
> > Adam,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> > OK, I can understand that.  However, then where do you get support for
> > building modules with tools supplied by Debian - especially when there
> > seems to be a bug in one of those tools, but can't figure out which tool
> > to file a bug report against (or if it even is a bug - which I think it is)?
> >
> > The mentors list doesn't seem to be appropriate, either.
>
> It's not a bug in our packages, otherwise we would have hundreds of bug
> reports of this already.
>
> (My guess: you haven't installed the packages properly, for example you
> made /usr/src a symlink.)
>
> Ben.

Ben,

I should also add - I doubt there are many people trying to create new 
kernel modules for Debian which aren't being merged into the upstream 
kernel, so I'm not sure why there would be "hundreds of bug reports".

Jerry