[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#523727: Bug#523727: nvidia-kernel-source: does not build against kernels older than 2.6.29

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-04-13 20:10 +0200, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 06:09:04PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> Well, I did rm -rf /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel before, and actually
>> it's the same with module-assistant.
>> 
>> > I have no problem building against 2.6.26, 2.6.24, etc.
>> 
>> It builds against 2.6.26 or 2.6.29, but not 2.6.27 or 2.6.28.
>
> Well since I didn't have any debian kernels between 2.6.26 and 2.6.29
> I didn't test that.  Rather odd that it fails with that though.
>
> No debian version has anything between 2.6.26 and 2.6.29 anymore, so I
> don't know if they are worth trying to support.  Do you have any reason
> for not wanting to just move to 2.6.29?

Well, I usually wait until the second or third point release of the
kernel before switching, and Tuz looks rather ugly...  So, nothing
really important.  OTOH, 180.29 runs very fine here apart from the small
glitches in the build system, so I'm not in a hurry to upgrade.

I've looked on Nvidia's Linux support forum, but the issue does not seem
to be known there, so little can be done probably.

Sven