Bug#830718: nvidia-kernel-dkms: dkms builds nvidia kernel modules without module_layout version

[Andreas Beckmann]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 21:37:18 +0100 Luca Boccassi
<luca.boccassi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-07-10 at 21:54 +0200, Peter Keel wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > * on the Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 08:23:23PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > I am running the same driver with 4.6 from Jessie backports, and I'm not
> > > seeing that problem. Are you sure it's not due to the custom kernel?
> > 
> > Pretty sure, as it did work maybe two weeks ago with 4.5.7 and the
> > same kernel config. And I also tried to recompile it now with the
> > old kernel 4.5.7, it also has no versions anymore.
> > 
> > I think it's something that changed in the toolchain within debian/sid.
> > Not necessarily the nvidia-kernel-dkms package (because I didn't 
> > change that one neither) but that's probably where it would need to
> > be mitigated, so I reported the bug there.
> > 
> > > Could you please try with the kernel from the repositories so that we
> > > can narrow it down a bit more?
> > 
> > I'll look into that. 
> 
> Just tried in a sid chroot with 367.27 from SVN and the latest kernel
> headers, all seems fine:
> 
> root at luca-desktop:/# modprobe --dump-modversions /lib/modules/4.6.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current.ko 
> 0xa435bbb2	module_layout
> 0x6bc3fbc0	__unregister_chrdev
> 0x5150c634	acpi_bus_register_driver

Is this still an issue with latest drivers (375.xx or newer) and kernels?

Andreas