Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (392 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:50:02PM +0400, Nikolay Derkach wrote:
> ?? ?????????????????? ???? 17 ???????????? 2007 Robert Schiele ??????????????(a):
> > > to make a kernel module for nvidia drivers or vmware. But still it has
> > > all
> >
> > It is wrong to build kernel modules with these haeders.  Install
> > kernel-source for that purpose and use the header files from that package.
> >
> > Robert
> 
> I consider those above mentioned proprietary applications need only headers 
> for building kernel modules, right? Then is it possible to maintain a package 
> with headers only (without sources) for the current kernel?

No, you need the source tree of the kernel to build any new kernel
modules against.  That's just the way the kernel build system works.
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