'make install' damages Ubuntu systems

[iawells]

It appears that 'make' will happily make the .ko file needed with just the kernel headers installed (i.e. without the full sources). However, 'make install' won't just not install it, it destroys /lib/modules completely (which, if you don't catch it and reinstall all the packages with modules, will render the system broken). The right answer appears to be simply to copy the file into place by hand.

Fine, the README does suggest a longer path, but this looks like a shortcut, not a system destroyer, so perhaps some warnings somewhere not to do this?