Hi, guys. I want to use custom build of LTS kernel 5.4, but i have kernel-headers 5.7 installed. Should i use same version of kernel-headers as my custom kernel? Or i can use newest kernel-headers with old kernel version?
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You typically don’t need kernel-headers as a user.
Only for compiling DKMS/AKMOD drivers, or when developing/building something.
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But i have custom wifi driver. Can i have problems with it in kernel 5.4 and headers 5.7?
BTW during kernel building it use /usr/include/** this is kernel-headers?
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Yes, this can be a problem.
Install the kernel-headers matching your kernel version.
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I was downloaded kernel sources 5.4.98. I read that kernel-headers must be same or lower to kernel version. Is it right? Where i can get headers same version?
kernel.org, maybe?
Kernel headers do not need to be rebuilt for every kernel, so they won’t necessarily match versions:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/kernel-kernel-devel-kernel-header-versions/76782/2?u=qulogic
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You should be able to get a listing of past versions with the following:
dnf list kernel-headers --showduplicates
Then, select the one you want and install. Although, that may not be a viable option on fedora, as opposed to RHEL, since that version is many fedora releases behind.
As someone else already mentioned, check Build System Info | koji to see if the specific version is available.
Alternatively, download the sources from upstream, install rpmdevtools and rpm-build along with any other required development tools and then copy the most recent config to the source directory.
tar xvf linux-5.4.98.tar.xz && cd linux-5.4.98
cp -r /boot/config-5.7.1-100.fc31.x86_64 .config
make menuconfig
make rpm-pkg
The last part should create the appropriate kernel rpms. As you’re only concerned with the kernel-headers package, you can install just that from $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/
See the fedora wiki for more info.