Bug#257738: marked as done (kernel-headers basically useless)
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From: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
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Subject: kernel-headers basically useless
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Package: kernel
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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 kernel source.
Therefore, it seems to me that the kernel-headers packages have no
use (at least in 2.6). The following module-source packages cannot
be built with the headers only:
drm-mach64, bcm4400, bcm5700, lirc, pcmcia, freeswan, openswan,
arla, openafs.
In all cases, I tried:
./debian/rules KSRC=3D/usr/src/kernel-headers-X.Y.ZZ binary
and
./debian/rules KSRC=3D/usr/src/kernel-headers-X.Y.ZZ modules-binary
Either I am doing something wrong, or the kernel-headers packages
are really not needed anymore.
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