Bug#958446: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver: Fails to build with kernel 5.6

[S R Wright]

DKMS works for me using kernel 5.6.8  -- sRw

On 2020-04-30 06:09, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 30/04/2020 12.09, jim_p wrote:
>> And then the reference to #956458, which is for nvidia legacy 390xx.
>> So I would like to ask if the bug I mentioned here is indeed fixed in the -5
>> revision of the package. I can't test it right now, but I probably will
>> tomorrow or on Saturday.
> I backported NVIDIA's changes from 440.82 to 418.126.02 (tesla-418),
> then to 390.132 (legacy-390xx) then to 340.108 (copying the wrong bug
> number). There were always some parts being patched not yet existing in
> the older releases so the patches got smaller on the way. For 340.108 it
> was more or less a complete redo, since nvidia significantly
> restructured the driver source after that series. There were also some
> ancient bits no longer existing in newer releases that needed to be
> patched additionally for 5.6.
>
> So yes, it is fixed for the 340 series, too. But as always, only
> compile-tested.
>
>
> Andreas
>