> kernel-headers is related to the userspace API and is not tied to a particular kernel version. > If the userspace API doesn't change there's no need to rebuild. Is there a problem you're > seeing by not having an updated kernel-headers? That does not be it works in all cases. I have Highpoint RSSD 7101A card with 2TB of NVME storage, which I would like to use! With the latest Fedora 30 update (5.3.7) the kernel will not boot because the modprobe can find the driver (rsnvme). Interestingly the two previous kernels (5.1.19 and 5.1.20) have the same complaint but boot anyway. The HighPoint storage is not used for normal Linux OS or /home So what is different with the 5.3.7 kernel!!!! So I download latest HighPoint RDDS 7101A driver and run there magic build script. Which fines three kernels: compile:default boot kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64 dumpkernels:kernel installed kernel-5.1.20-300.fc30.x86_64 kernel-5.1.19-300.fc30.x86_64 kernel-5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64 And tries to build its driver against each kernel. But that fails because: kernelver:-------------------- compile:kernel file /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64 version 5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64 [default boot kernel] installkerndev:install kerneldev 5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64 installkerndev:install package kernel-core-devel-5.3.7-200.fc30 Error: Unable to find a match: kernel-devel-5.3.7-200.fc30 compile:kernel 5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64 does not contain kernel headers, active[1]. Ok so I install kernel-devel and get 5.3.11-200.fc30 and install kernel-headers and get 5.3.6-200.fc30 I run the HighPoint driver build again and it fails again because none of the installed kernels have matching headers. And I cant find any way to convince the 5.3.7 kernel not to care about the missing rsnvme driver. And I cant seem to find the matched kernel headers for the kernel fedora desided to install!!!! I am stuck here. I really don't want to be forced into a clean reinstall And I really want to be able to use this fast NVME storage. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
