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Bug 362447 - x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers failed to compile with kernel 2.6.39
Summary: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers failed to compile with kernel 2.6.39
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Doug Goldstein (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2011-04-07 14:07 UTC by Denis Sokolovsky
Modified: 2011-05-11 16:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
patch for nvidia driver sources (2.6.39-kernel.patch,704 bytes, patch)
2011-04-07 14:12 UTC, Denis Sokolovsky 		Details | Diff
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Description Denis Sokolovsky 2011-04-07 14:07:07 UTC 
Due to removing of kernel lock facility file "linux/smp_lock.h" is removed from kernel sources. This leads to compilation failure of any version of nvidia-drivers package I tried.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Prepare 2.6.39 sources
2. Try to emerge nvidia-drivers
Comment 1 Denis Sokolovsky 2011-04-07 14:11:49 UTC 
Why I post bug here? I propose to add a small patch to nvidia-drivers ebuild. It's really simple - remove including of smp_lock.h from driver sources. Looks like developers in nvidia simply forget about it. Currently I have 2.6.39-rc1 kernel and nvidia-drivers 260.19.36 compiled with proposed patch.
Comment 2 Denis Sokolovsky 2011-04-07 14:12:56 UTC 
Created attachment 268851 [details, diff]
patch for nvidia driver sources

patch for nvidia driver sources to compile with kernel 2.6.39
Comment 3 Denis Sokolovsky 2011-04-14 16:09:48 UTC 
Despite of releasing of new nvidia-drivers (270.41.03) which are compiles with kernel 2.6.39 I propose to add this patch to allow successful compilation of older 260.x drivers.
Comment 4 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-05-11 16:07:41 UTC 
We have a policy of not patching older series for newer kernels since this is not supported by NVIDIA.