it's clear yes, thanks for these explanations/clarifications. Le lun. 20 mars 2023 à 12:42, Genes Lists <li...@sapience.com> a écrit :
> > > > > if I understand correctly, I can install my package > > linux-lts-perso-6.1.15-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, boot on it (eg. "my" > > kernel) and continue to use the binaries present on my system while they > > have not been compiled with its (new) headers and especially for the > > binaries that call the functions present in the blk-core.c file ? > > The kernel headers are used to compile out-of-tree kernel modules for > that kernel. You should always install kernel and its companion headers > file. While there may be cases where the headers are not actually > changed and it may work - good policy is always install both kernel and > its companion headers package. If you don't compile out of tree kernel > modules then you may not even need to install headers. > > Hope that is clear. > > > >
