Bug#534867: [linux-headers-2.6.30-1-686] Missed headers

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:23:04PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 01:52 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > reopen 534867
> > thanks
> > 
> > > I've reopened this bug because I've just been stung by it myself.  The
> > > issue seems to be not so much that the package I'm trying to build
> > > (nvidia graphics module, see http://bugs.debian.org/510961) is using
> > > references to linux/* rather than asm/*, but rather that it doesn't
> 
> The use of <linux/semaphore.h> was correct.
> 
> I'm changing this bug to an RFH because this is a problem with your
> ability to maintain kernel modules, not with the kernel headers package.
> The kernel team is not prepared to maintain every out-of-tree module.

Fair enough!  I'm just a user, not a kernel hacker, and was trying to
build this module for my rather ancient (2003?) PC when I got bitten.

I'll clone and reassign this bug to the relevant nvidia-* package;
hopefully someone there knows enough to be able to fix the issue.

Thanks!

   Julian