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Post #159,126 by folkert 6/8/04 10:15:18 PM Reply	Okay... here is what I think you mean... If you are making a kernel-image (debian style) you need source. If you are making "aftermarket" modules for your kernel, rather than D/L the source and configure it and re-compile it. All you would have to do is D/L the headers (the build dir) for your exact kernel (which is provided as a packageby Debian) Most every package that needs to compile against the current kernel FIND this header dir. Makes the whole thing easy. The only time you need kernel source (in debian) is a custom kernel. You will never need the configured source ever, unless you are doing a custom kernel. If you are compiling a kernel, you do not need the headers... you make the headers with the kernel source. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* I've decided to become a perfectionist. That way I'll have more reasons to hate people. Your recycled electrons annoy me. Please use new electrons.
Post #159,156 by boxley 6/9/04 8:38:33 AM Reply	Okay so when you install a module, you are inserting into current running Kernel. If you needed to compile some archaic POS that wasnt a module and didnt understand the architecture into the kernel, the $INCLUDE_DIRS would contain all the headers for your modules and so would build without issue along with the archaic POS. thanx, bill Anchorage AK: House for sale 3 bed 1 bath 1440 sq feet huge lot near Cheney Lake 175K FSBO 813.273.3518 Time for Lord Stanley to get a Tan questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #159,159 by pwhysall 6/9/04 8:59:22 AM Reply	Translation plz. It isn't at all clear what you're driving at. To be clear: if you're compiling kernel modules, you need kernel source. If you're developing software that makes kernel calls, you don't. The headers will suffice. I'm sure that if I've fluffed this I will be rapidly and aggressively corrected. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #159,162 by boxley 6/9/04 9:01:01 AM Reply	thats what I meant. thanx Anchorage AK: House for sale 3 bed 1 bath 1440 sq feet huge lot near Cheney Lake 175K FSBO 813.273.3518 Time for Lord Stanley to get a Tan questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #159,200 by folkert 6/9/04 12:18:12 PM Reply	nVidia Kernel modules only need headers. As does the VPN Shiite from Cisco (it make a module as well) ATI's driver s are very similar only needing headers for it's module. list could go on. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* I've decided to become a perfectionist. That way I'll have more reasons to hate people. Your recycled electrons annoy me. Please use new electrons.
Post #159,214 by pwhysall 6/9/04 12:58:05 PM Reply	Nods sagely. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]

Wow, that was fun. - (inthane-chan) - (9) - June 8, 2004, 04:47:46 PM EDT

No... - (folkert) - (8) - June 8, 2004, 04:57:30 PM EDT

Oh, I figured it out... - (inthane-chan) - June 8, 2004, 05:12:49 PM EDT

/me hand goes up? - (boxley) - (6) - June 8, 2004, 07:10:40 PM EDT

Okay... here is what *I* think you mean... - (folkert) - (5) - June 8, 2004, 10:15:18 PM EDT

Okay - (boxley) - (4) - June 9, 2004, 08:38:33 AM EDT

Translation plz. - (pwhysall) - (3) - June 9, 2004, 08:59:22 AM EDT

thats what I meant. thanx -NT - (boxley) - June 9, 2004, 09:01:01 AM EDT

nVidia Kernel modules only need headers. - (folkert) - (1) - June 9, 2004, 12:18:12 PM EDT

Nods sagely. -NT - (pwhysall) - June 9, 2004, 12:58:05 PM EDT

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