On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 20:47:41 +0200, Daan Wendelen said: > The latest nvidia driver is incompatible with 4.19-rc3 because > "drm_mode_connector_update_edid_property" got renamed to > "drm_connector_update_edid_property" and > "drm_mode_connector_attach_encoder" to "drm_connector_attach_encoder" in > the linux headers. > > Is this considered the fault of linux or is it considered nvidia's > responsibility to fix this? The short form: Out of tree modules are the problem of their maintainers. Kernel support is basically limited to not intentionally breaking the basic mechanism for compiling an out-of-tree module. The long form: Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst - go read it.
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