On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 8:52 PM stan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 09:36:52 -0600
> parspes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The error message provided by the anti-virus vendor's package
> > basically states that the kernel module cannot be compiled for kernel
> > x.x.x.x as the kernel headers or the kernel source for kernel x.x.x.x
> > are not installed. Thanks!
>
> If the kernel for which you have headers isn't installed, go here,
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8
> and get the binary kernel packages for the kernel and install them,
> dnf -C install [kernel packages].
>
> At that point, you can reboot into the kernel that matches the headers
> and build your package.  It has a hard requirement for the match.
> Alternatively, you could edit the make file and change the check on
> kernel to be a > rather than an =.  That is, allow the package to build
> with kernel versions greater than the header version.
> _______________________________________________
>

While technically correct, this is not  relevant to this context.
Kernel-headers is for building userspace and versioning really doesn't
matter much.  You need the kernel-devel package (which is built with every
kernel). Your kernel-devel package has to match your kernel version that
you are building a module for.

>
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