618144 – nvidia-drivers-381.09 does build with kernel-4.11

Bug 618144 - nvidia-drivers-381.09 does build with kernel-4.11

Summary: nvidia-drivers-381.09 does build with kernel-4.11

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 617198

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2017-05-10 21:05 UTC by Nicolas Porcel
Modified:	2017-05-12 19:05 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

See Also:	618216
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Attachments
nvidia-drivers patch for API changes (fix-invalid-pointer.patch,1.66 KB, patch) 2017-05-10 21:06 UTC, Nicolas Porcel	Details \| Diff
kernel patch for GPL symbols (fix-invalid-pointer.patch,1.66 KB, patch) 2017-05-10 21:07 UTC, Nicolas Porcel	Details \| Diff
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Description Nicolas Porcel 2017-05-10 21:05:31 UTC

There are 2 problems:

1. They changed some headers between 4.10 and 4.11, leading to some API compatibility problems. I created a patch to fix that.

2. There are some GPL symbols used in the driver. I didn't find where they are used. They are used indirectly called through other kernel methods. I wrote a kernel patch for that, but this is a dirty patch and I would like to know if there is a better way.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Nicolas Porcel 2017-05-10 21:06:27 UTC

Created attachment 472288 [details, diff]
nvidia-drivers patch for API changes

Comment 2 Nicolas Porcel 2017-05-10 21:07:20 UTC

Created attachment 472290 [details, diff]
kernel patch for GPL symbols

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-05-10 21:18:47 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 617198 ***