Bug#358580: linux-2.6: cannot build modules against 2.6.16

[Richard Antony Burton <richardaburton@hotmail.com>]

Package: linux-2.6
Severity: important

Unable to build some modules against the new 2.6.16 headers package. Here is the
top of the output from trying to build the tp_smapi module against 2.6.15 & 16:

root@raburton:~/tp_smapi-0.17# make install
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-686/build M=/root/tp_smapi-0.17 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-1-686'
  CC [M]  /root/tp_smapi-0.17/tp_base.o
  CC [M]  /root/tp_smapi-0.17/tp_smapi.o
....

root@raburton:~/tp_smapi-0.17# make install
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.16-1-686/build M=/root/tp_smapi-0.17 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.16-1-686'
sed: can't read tp_smapi.c: No such file or directory
....

It appears the modules makefile no longer changes directory correctly to the
location specified by M.

Additionally module assistant gives the following warning on start (though was
able to build the fglrx module):
"Warning, /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.16-1 seems to contain unconfigured kernel
source!"
I assume this is probably related.

Richard.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)