tp-smapi-dkms 0.41-1: tp-smapi kernel module failed to build [make: Makefile: No such file or directory]

[Aleksandr Panzin]

While trying to install 3.7 rc2 mainline kernel.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: tp-smapi-dkms 0.41-1
Uname: Linux 3.5.7-030507-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
DKMSKernelVersion: 3.7.0-030700rc2-generic
Date: Sun Oct 21 17:33:57 2012
DuplicateSignature:
 DKMS make.log for tp-smapi-0.41 for kernel 3.7.0-030700rc2-generic (x86_64)
 make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.7.0-030700rc2-generic'
 make: Makefile: No such file or directory
 make: *** No rule to make target `Makefile'. Stop.
 make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.7.0-030700rc2-generic'
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
PackageVersion: 0.41-1
SourcePackage: tp-smapi
Title: tp-smapi-dkms 0.41-1: tp-smapi kernel module failed to build
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-12 (8 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Elliot (elliot-wolk)]

same on 12.10.

installing with m-a from tp-smapi-source fails.

new to kernel 3.7, module-assistant says:
Bad luck, the kernel headers for the target kernel version could
                       │ not be found and you did not specify other valid
                       │ kernel headers to use.
                       │ However, you can install the header files for your kernel which
                       │ are provided by the linux-headers-3.7.0-4-generic package. For
                       │ most modules packages, these files are perfectly sufficient
                       │ without having the original kernel source.

this is from 'm-a a-i tp-smapi -f'. of course, linux-headers-3.7.0-4-generic is, in fact, installed.
the same precise setup succeeds on 3.6.3.

running make on the source in tp-smapi-source produces this error:
wolke:/usr/src/modules/tp-smapi$ sudo make
make -C /usr/src/modules/tp-smapi M=/usr/src/modules/tp-smapi O=/usr/src/modules/tp-smapi modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/tp-smapi'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/tp-smapi'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

[martin suchanek (martin-suc)]

as well for raring 13.04 development branch

[Daniel Dietrich (shaddowy2)]

Happend for me while installing the linux-lowlatency meta package (kernel version 3.8.0.12.5), @ raring 13.04.

[Jose Celestino (japc)]

The kernel generic headers is missing the version.h file.

A workaround is to link as follows:

ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux/

[martin suchanek (martin-suc)]

May I ask:
Why not use /usr/include/linux/version.h (I used it) ?
And how to calculate LINUX_VERSION_CODE number according to kernel version ?
thank you.

[Jose Celestino (japc)]

The macro is on version.h:

#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))