Re: make-kpkg and kernel-name

[Christian Kujau <evil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Thomas Braun wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using loop-aes  for quite a while now and have encounterd a small
> misfeature (I wouldn't call it a bug).
> My box is running under debian woody. AfterI I build a new kernel
(2.4.27)
> with, for example, "make-kpkg --append-to-version \-test kernel_image"
and

make-kpkg is a debian feature....

> installing it I have the directory /lib/modules/2.4.27-test/.
> After rebooting and selecting the nee kernel in grub, I change now to my
> loop-aes directory and execute make, /usr/src/linux points to the running
> kernel, he compiles the new loop.o modul but moves it
> to  /lib/modules/2.4.27/block/  instead of the right
> place /lib/modules/2.4.27-test/block/ .

...and as such, it's basically make+some_debian_magic. but the Makefile
from loop-aes (or some other src) does not know about the "magic" part.
i assume it will only look into /usr/src/linux/Makefile and finds 2.4.27
 as version number.

> The Makefile also complains about the
> wrong version ("WARNING - THIS MODULE WILL NOT WORK WITH CURRENTLY
RUNNING
> KERNEL") but infact I'm running the right kernel.

you're running 2.4.27-test, and the "-test" was added to the kernel, not
to /usr/src/linux/Makefile, right? not? correct me, if i'm wrong.

> Of course I only have to move the module to the right place, but I
think it's
> quite annyoing.

you could edit /usr/src/linux/Makefile, or let make-kpkg edit this file
perhaps?

cheers,
Christian.
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