Bug#856355: nvidia-driver: no longer works

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 20:12 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 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

Yes:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=856382

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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