Re: proprietary kernel modules w/ kernel-package?

["Kit Peters" <popefelix@gmail.com>]

Please excuse the lateness of my reply.

I don't think this is going to work for me.  A wrinkle that I failed
to mention earlier is that I'm compiling a custom kernel for these
machines, and the driver needs to be compiled against that kernel.
Ideally, I'd like to use make-kpkg to generate the custom kernel
(which I'm doing already) and the 3M touchscreen kernel module.  I can
separate out the rest of the 3M utilities.

Owing to the lateness of my reply, I'll also mention my original question:

> For my job, I have to install 3M's proprietary touchscreen drivers (distributed
> as an SRPM) for MicroTouch USB touchscreens.  I am well aware that these
> screens are supported natively in the kernel; however, my experience with
> the in-kernel support (as of 2.6.12.3) for these touchscreens has been that the
> screens rapidly go out of calibration.  Thus 3M's proprietary driver, which
> works tolerably well, and includes a calibration utility.
>
> Previously, I had the 3M driver working under 2.6.12.3 and Slackware.  The
> machines for this project, however, are now all to run on Debian, and we
> would like to "Debianize" things as much as possible.  This means that I wish
> to wrap the 3M driver in a .deb.  What is the best way to go about this?  Note
> that I plan to compile kernels on a fast machine that runs the same version
> of Debian, but is otherwise dissimilar to the project machines.

KP