Re: Debian way of integrating out of tree drivers

From: Matt Zagrabelny (mzagrabe_at_d.umn.edu)
Date: 03/31/05

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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:57:53 -0600

    > Here is a listing of my /usr/src directory:
    >
    > bob@t40:/usr/src$ ls -l
    > total 3544
    > -rwxr-xr-x 1 bob bob 332 2005-02-15 17:51 kcomp.sh
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 bob bob 3518008 2005-03-28 19:41
    > kernel-image-2.6.11.4_t40.200503281929_i386.deb
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 bob bob 261 2005-02-15 10:20 KERNELS.README.TXT
    > drwxr-sr-x 21 bob bob 4096 2005-03-28 19:41 linux-2.6.11.4
    > drwxr-sr-x 4 bob bob 4096 2005-03-31 21:24 modules
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 bob bob 20698 2005-03-28 19:42
    > thinkpad-modules-2.6.9.rja_5.8-1+t40.200412221617_i386.deb
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58955 2005-01-09 12:17 thinkpad.tar.gz
    >
    > bob@t40:/usr/src$ uname -a
    > Linux t40 2.6.11.4T40237392G-RJA #1 Mon Mar 28 19:36:30 CEST 2005 i686
    > GNU/Linux
    >
    > I am not even sure if the thinkpad modules are contained in the
    > kernel-image deb or as

    no, generally the modules are in their own deb file.

    >
    > Can you make sense out of this ?

    it looks like you dont have a deb file for your thinkpad modules that
    correspond to your kernel image deb. could the make-kpkg have died
    prematurally, that is, before the thinkpad.deb file was created.

    there are two reasons why i say that i dont think that the thinkpad
    modules corresponds to the kernel image. that is the kernel version
    number is different and it looks like your date stamp is different.

    here is a list of my /usr/src:
    /usr/src $ ls
    configs
    kernel-image-2.6.10.20050124.0_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    kernel-image-2.6.10.20050209.0_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    kernel-image-2.6.10.20050209.1_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    kernel-image-2.6.10.20050210.0_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    kernel-image-2.6.11.5.20050324.0_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    kernel-image-2.6.7.20040910.0_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    kernel-image-2.6.7.20041020.0_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    kernel-image-2.6.8.20040914.0_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    kernel-image-2.6.8.20040914.1_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    kernel-source-2.6.10
    kernel-source-2.6.10.tar.bz2
    linux-2.6.11.5
    linux-2.6.11.5.tar.bz2
    modules
    nvidia-kernel-2.6.10.20050124.0_1.0.6111-1+10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    nvidia-kernel-2.6.10.20050209.1_1.0.6629+1-1+10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    nvidia-kernel-2.6.10.20050210.0_1.0.6629+1-1+10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    nvidia-kernel-2.6.11.5.20050324.0_1.0.7167-1+10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    nvidia-kernel-2.6.7.20040910.0_1.0.6111-1+10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    nvidia-kernel-2.6.7.20041020.0_1.0.6111-1+10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    nvidia-kernel-2.6.8.20040914.1_1.0.6111-1+10.00.Custom_i386.deb
    nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz

    so there you have it. the modules deb should correspond to the kernel
    image deb in both kernel version and append-to-version.

    -matt zagrabelny 

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