Bug#735630: doesn't work with experimental kernels without the patch

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2014-01-27 02:11, Maurizio Avogadro wrote:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/5/515 should be the original patch
> removing EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_os_wait_events_complete)

That should explain that the symbol was available at compile time, but
not at runtime. And the comment in the fedora patch clarifies that this
is no longer needed. (I didn't want to throw out code without a good
reason.)

> Fedora guys are facing the same issue and are applying a patch (pls. see
> http://cvs.rpmfusion.org/viewvc/rpms/nvidia-kmod/devel/nvidia_3.13_kernel.patch?hideattic=1&revision=1.3&root=nonfree&view=markup).
> 
> The 1.2 version of that patch also includes a define for the missing
> DEVICE_ACPI_HANDLE macro (removed in v1.3) which perfectly fixes all
> issues here.

Thanks for digging into these. I'll include rev 1.2 in the next upload.

Right now alioth.d.o seems to have some issues and the vcs are offline.


Andreas