With CONFIG_MODULES disabled, "make bindeb-pkg" fails in scripts/package/builddeb with: find: ‘Module.symvers’: No such file or directory The deploy_kernel_headers function in scripts/package/builddeb calls: find arch/$SRCARCH/include Module.symvers include scripts -type f But find errors out if any of its command-line arguments doesn't exist. This could be fixed by checking whether that file exists first, but if CONFIG_MODULES is disabled, it doesn't really make sense to build the linux-headers package at all. Perhaps that whole package could be disabled when modules are disabled? - Josh Triplett