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by way of sanitizing various C header files that are shipped in the Linux
kernel source tarball.</para>
- <para>First, make sure there are no stale files and dependencies lying around
+ <para>Apply a patch to the Linux headers, to fix a bug that can cause
+ compilation issues for some userspace applications:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&linux-header-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Make sure there are no stale files and dependencies lying around
from previous activity:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make mrproper</userinput></screen>