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$ ls ../*.deb
../linux-image-2.6.32-falcot_1_i386.deb
../qc-usb-modules-2.6.32-falcot_0.6.6-7+1_i386.deb
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Automating the process
The whole process can be automated with module-assistant. This package was
specifically designed to install the required tools and packages, compile an
external module, and install it. Thus, the m-a a-i qc-usb-source command
compiles the driver for the current kernel and installs it on the fly.
The next step in automation is dkms, which automates the process from the
time it is installed; the modules that use it (the *.dkms packages) are automatically
compiled at the time of installation, for any kernel(s) currently installed;
DKMS also takes into account the installation of new kernels, their
updates, and removal of obsolete modules upon deletion of a kernel package.
This system is more recent (it didn't exist in Lenny), and it has not yet been
generalized, but some modules already use it. For instance, simply installing
the virtualbox-ose-dkms package ensures that the modules necessary for the
VirtualBox virtualization system are available for all installed kernels, with no
manual intervention required. It is necessary, however, to install the linuxheaders-*
package that matches to the installed kernel. The easiest way to
do so is to install the corresponding meta-package; for instance, if you use
linux-images-2.6-686, you would install linux-headers-2.6-686.
8.10.6. Applying a Kernel Patch
Some features are not included in the standard kernel due to a lack of maturity or to some
disagreement between the maintainer of the source code and the kernel maintainers. Such
features may be distributed as patches that anyone is free to apply to the kernel sources.
Debian distributes some of these patches in linux-patch-* or kernel-patch-* packages (for instance,
linux-patch-grsecurity2, which tightens some of the kernel's security policies). These packages
install files in the /usr/src/kernel-patches/ directory.
To apply one or more of these installed patches, use the patch command in the sources directory
then start compilation of the kernel as described above.
$ cd ~/kernel/linux-source-2.6.32
$ fakeroot make-kpkg clean
$ zcat /usr/src/kernel-patches/diffs/grsecurity2/grsecurity
➥ -2.1.14-2.6.32.13-201005151340.patch.gz | patch -p1
$ fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -grsec --revision 1 --initrd kernel-
➥ image
$ ls ../*.deb
../linux-image-2.6.32-falcot_1_i386.deb
../qc-usb-modules-2.6.32-falcot_0.6.6-7+1_i386.deb
../linux-image-2.6.32-grsec_1_i386.deb
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