Tony Houghton <h...@realh.co.uk> (03/04/2009):
> Cyril, I had similar errors to what you posted in #25, which I thought
> was strange, because I'd already succesfully built the module from
> nvidia-kernel-source 180.29-1 using make-kpkg on a vanilla upstream
> 2.6.29 kernel.

Ah, nice to know.

> To build against the stock kernel I installed
> linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64, linux-headers-2.6.26-1-common,
> linux-kbuild-2.6.29 and linux-source-2.6.29. I merged the contents of
> linux-headers-2.6.29-1-amd64, linux-headers-2.6.29-1-common,
> linux-kbuild-2.6.29 and linux-source-2.6.29 and used options
> --revision=1 --append-to-version=-1-amd64 to make-kpkg. The module then
> builds, installs and loads successfully.

Thanks.

> Why make-kpkg works but m-a doesn't is a mystery to me, but I hope
> pointing out that it does helps you more knowledgeable people to track
> down the problem.

I've tried some random modules, and they all failed with .29; I assumed
something might not be perfect with the current headers, so I postponed
a bit digging it out.

I'll investigate, probably right after the weekend.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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