[Kernel-handbook-general] building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 13:08 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 11:47 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> > 
> > On Tue, 17 May 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm slowly working down my to-do list, and got to this:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 01:53 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> > >> diff -r 8b4d248d871d chapter-common-tasks.sgml
> > >> --- a/chapter-common-tasks.sgml	Thu May 05 01:07:52 2011 +0530
> > >> +++ b/chapter-common-tasks.sgml	Thu May 05 01:49:03 2011 +0530
> > >> @@ -176,7 +176,16 @@
> > >>   	    <tt><em>target</em>_<em>arch</em>_<em>featureset</em>_<em>flavour</em></tt>.
> > >>   	    Replace the <tt><em>featureset</em></tt> with
> > >>   	    <tt>none</tt> if you do not want any of the extra
> > >> -	    featuresets.
> > >> +	    featuresets. This command will build the linux image and
> > >> +	    kernel headers packages. You will also need
> > >
> > > Not 'will', but 'may'.
> > 
> > Why 'may'? You mean because it might fail?
> [...]
> 
> Because if you haven't changed the headrs or the ABI name, the previous
> version is probably fine.

Oh, no, that's not true.  However, most people don't need the
linux-headers packages at all as they don't need OOT modules.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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