Duplicate kernel-headers after upgrading to 2.6.35

[Ryad Ben-El-Kezadri]

I correct the typo:

So may you confirm that I should keep the new headers for step 1 and 2
and reinstall the old one after (as Kyle told me)?

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Ryad Ben-El-Kezadri <ryad.bek at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sorry, I was not clear enough:
> I need to
> 1)first patch the NEW kernel (to have better time support. I want to add
> the patch of Alexander Gordeev for better PPS(=Pulse Per Second) support)
> 2)then compile some apps in userland (mainly pps-tools which is needed by
> LinuxPPS).
> Specially the LinuxPPS group say concerning the installation of pps-tools*
> "Optionally*, when we have older header files, we update the header files
> using the versions from your new kernel.
>
> $ cd /usr/include
> $ mv linux linux.old
> $ mv asm asm.old
> $ mv asm-generic asm-generic.old
> $ ln -s /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/include/linux linux
> $ ln -s /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/arch/x86/include/asm asm
>
> $ ln -s /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/include/asm-generic asm-generic"
>
> So may can confirm that I should keep the new headers for step 1 and 2
> and reinstall the old one after (as Kyle told me)?
>
> Ryad
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ryad Ben-El-Kezadri
>> <ryad.bek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Indeed, I made a mistake:
>> > the new headers are installed at the end of the installation process
>> > with (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel):
>> > su -c 'rpm -ivh kernel-<version>.<arch>.rpm
>> > kernel-firmware-<version>.<arch>.rpm
>> > kernel-headers-<version>.<arch>.rpm kernel-devel-<version>.<arch>.rpm'
>> >
>> > But still the problem is the same:
>> > I need to
>> > 1)first patch the kernel
>> > 2)then compile some apps in userland
>> >
>> > and I do not know what kernel headers version (old or new) to use for
>> step 1
>> > and step 2.
>> >
>> > Ryad
>> >
>> > PS: here is what I got when I do
>> > rpm -qa | grep kernel-headers
>> > kernel-headers-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686
>> > kernel-headers-2.6.35.6-43.fc13.i686
>>
>> If you don't know what kernel version you need to patch, we certainly
>> won't either.  Especially when we have no idea why you need to patch
>> it, or what the patch does.
>>
>> Also, building applications against kernel headers is a practice that
>> is generally discouraged overall.
>>
>> josh
>>
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