Bug#856355: nvidia-driver: no longer works

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2017-02-28 14:55, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>> Then, isn't this a kernel bug? I mean, the ABI has changed, so that
>> the number should have changed to 4.9.0-3 instead of remaining at
>> 4.9.0-2.
> 
> It's within the kernel team prerogatives to decide what ABI to keep
> stable and what not.
> I assume that no free software kernel module was impacted, so it was
> decided not to bump the ABI version.
> We cannot expect the kernel team to do additional work to specifically
> support proprietary modules.

Are the kernel maintainers aware of this abi break?


Andreas