question on speakup-source debian package

[John covici]

It looks like its designed to use the running kernel, but it also
looks like you could change the version and have it work, but you do
need the source package for the kernel and it might be that you need
to make its bzImage, even if you never use it for things to work
properly.

on Saturday 07/26/2008 Gregory Nowak(greg at romuald.net.eu.org) wrote
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 > Thanks, I understand that, and this is exactly what the speakup-source
 > package does as far as I can tell. Maybe I wasn't asking what I want
 > to know in the best way, so let me try to clarify. The
 > module-assistant man page reiterates more than once, that you should
 > be building modules against the source of the currently running
 > kernel. So, what I wanted to know is can I use the speakup-source
 > package to build the speakup modules against the 2.6.26 kernel, while
 > still running 2.6.25.12, or must I be running 2.6.26 to build the
 > speakup modules against it?
 > 
 > Hopefully, this makes what I'd like to know a bit clearer. Thanks.
 > 
 > Greg
 > 
 > 
 > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 02:27:58PM -0400, John covici wrote:
 > > OK, I should put in a word here -- in the latest speakup and I am not
 > > sure about how Debian implements this, the kernel is not actually
 > > patched unless you want to be able to use menuconfig to control what
 > > is built in or not -- it just compiles the modules and you load the
 > > ones you want.  Kernel source is no longer touched at all.
 > > 
 > > Hope this helps.
 > > 
 > 
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