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I am trying to compile some usb drivers for the pi and therefore, I need to get the headers that correspond to my present kernel

uname -r produces 4.1.7+

Based on my experiences with Debian and Ubuntu based systems, I assumed that apt-get install linux-headers-rpi would get me the relevant headers, but lo and behold, that meta package gets me linux-headers-3.16.0-4-common which is not exactly what I was expecting.

Could someone explain why I have to go rummaging about on the net for the headers for the current image?

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  • This is driving me batty too. A USB Wifi dongle I got requires compiling its driver, but since several of the Pi kernels do not have matching headers in the repo, I have to roll back to an older kernel. Since I don't know how to roll back without re-imaging (simple installing the old kernel doesn't magically make it active), it's becoming a PITA...
    – Hydraxan14
    Commented Jul 11, 2016 at 17:10

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