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Re: [RFC] kernel-headers and /lib/modules/*/build -> ?



>>"Miquel" == Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron-office.nl> writes:

 Miquel> In article <[🔎] 87wv3mdw8w.fsf@glaurung.green-gryphon.com>,
 Miquel> Manoj Srivastava  <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
>>>"David" == David Schleef <ds@schleef.org> writes:
 >> 
 David> They still don't have .config or version information in a form
 David> that is suitable to include in a Makefile.  See Miquel van
 David> Smoorenburg's mail in this thread -- doing what he suggests
 David> would be nice.
 >> 
 >> Done.

 Miquel> disclaimer:

 Miquel> Note that it was only a suggestion I sent to the kernel mailinglist
 Miquel> some time ago, nobody's ever used this I think. If you're going to
 Miquel> include it in the debian kernel source package I can only hope that
 Miquel> it works as advertized and that I didn't overlook something. But,
 Miquel> if it does work as it should, perhaps I can get it into the official
 Miquel> kernel this time.

	Please allow me to clarify. When I said done, I meant the
 kernel image package, as well as the kernel header packages now
 ``have .config [and] version information in a form that is suitable
 to include in a Makefile.'' 

	I do not change the kernel Makefiles, in the source or any
 other package. That is up to the human to do (rembmer, kernel-package
 is used by peopole who may not get the kernel-source package, and no
 functionality of the kernel-package ever depends on you getting
 debian official source packages).

 Summary:
	So, all you get from kernel-package is a makefile snippet. It
 is not in the kernel source packaging, it is in /.usr/share/doc for
 kernel-headers and kernel-image packages. There is no chance of
 something breaking.

	manoj
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