Hi everyone,
This issue has come up in a few bugs so I want to bounce it off the
community. When building packages that need a configured kernel source
tree, many ebuilds inherit linux-info to find configuration info about
the kernel. However, there is the running kernel with its configuration
(/proc/config.gz if it exists), there is the kernel source tree
(/usr/src/linux if it exists and is configured) and both of these can be
of a different version than linux-headers. Since building modules
consumes headers from /usr/include/linux, but uses code from
/usr/src/linux and then these modules are expected to insmod against the
running kernel, all of which can be mismatched, we have a lot of room
for breakage. Eg. bug #458014.
Any ideas about how to deal cleanly with situations like that?
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
Chair of Information Technology
D'Youville College
Buffalo, NY 14201
(716) 829-8197
