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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
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Subject: Bug#771339: linux: linux-headers 3.16 Makefile contains VERSION=2 PATCHLEVEL=6
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:40:03 +0200
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Hi,

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 09:41:25PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-06-11 at 17:01 +0200, Fab Stz wrote:
> > Source: linux
> > Version: 4.9.0 or 4.19... probably any
> > Followup-For: Bug #771339
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > This bug still exists in linux 4.9 and 4.19 (stretch, stretch-backports and
> > also buster)
> > 
> > Like the first reporter, I tried compiling the amdgpu driver provided by AMD
> > (through DKMS) and it is searching for the kernel version in that file.
> > 
> > As a workaroung in the meantime, I manually set VERSION to 4 and PATCHLEVEL to
> > 19 in /usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-9-amd64/Makefile
> > or the equivalent for 4.19
> 
> They should be using "make kernelversion" instead of looking for
> variable assignments the Makefile.
> 
> This is not even a Debian-specific problem any more.  Looking for
> variable assignments in the Makefile will break whenever the kernel is
> built out-of-tree (since Linux 4.20).

So should we close this bugreport?

Regards,
Salvatore