Re: Module.symvers is missing; modprobe error

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 05:34:02PM -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote:
> 
> So I am trying to build a out-of-tree kernel module for my graphics chipset.
> 
> I am using Debian 5.0 (x86) with 2.6.29-1-686 kernel.
> 
> Now as soon as I give the "make" command from the source directory of my graphics chipset, I get the following warning:
> WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.29/Module.symvers 
> 
>            is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions. 

Normally you can ignore that warning.

Any reason you use linux-source rather than linux-headers?

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