Re: Missing file in current kernel-devel package

[Fred Smith <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 01:24:01PM -0400, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >> On 10/05/2017 10:17 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>> Albert McCann wrote:
> >>>>> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> >>>>> m.roth@xxxxxxxxx
> >>>>> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2017 10:58 AM
> >>>>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Subject: Re:  Missing file in current kernel-devel package
> <snip>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>    I've identified what my problem is, trying to install the NVidia
> >>>>>>> proprietary drivers: in kernel-devel-3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64,
> >>>>>>> there is a file
> >>>>>>> /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64/include/linux/fence.h
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>    It does not exist in the kernel-devel-3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64
> >>>>>>> package. Is this something that got missed, or did HR drop it,
> >>>>> or....?
> >>
> >>> Sorry, but I really don't believe it is good, much less best practice
> >>> to do something like removing a kernel include file within one
> release. If
> >>> they'd made it go a away for 7.0, I would deal, but to suddenly drop
> >>> it, bad.
> >>
> >> Tell it to Linus, not us:
> >>
> >> https://lwn.net/Articles/685049/
> >
> Well, I d/l the latest from NVidia, and that one built. Of course, now I'm
> going to really worry about several of my users, who have old - as in 5-10
> year old, NVidia cards, who need legacy drivers, like the 304.
> 
Mark, that's why elrepo packages several nvidia drivers and offers
the nvidia-detect package, which will query the hardware to see which
nvidia chipsets you have, and recommend the appropriate driver from
the elrepo repository.

Fred
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