title: Should I care that the symbol version dump is missing? How do I get one?
body: <p>I am trying to compile a driver that we have from source and I am working through the issues with a new target environment.  One of the slightly disturbing things I see is the following warning:</p>
  
  <pre>  WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.38/Module.symvers
             is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.
  </pre>
  
  <p>I spent a fair amount of time looking on the web and this is shown in output frequently when other questions are asked, but I didn't see any commentary about whether or not this is an issue.  </p>
  
  <p>In any case, how would I tell linux/ubuntu to generate Module.symvers?</p>