On 05/10/17 18:24, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 10/05/2017 10:17 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Albert McCann wrote:
From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.roth@5-cent.us Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2017 10:58 AM To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Missing file in current kernel-devel package
<snip> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've identified what my problem is, trying to install the NVidia >>>>>>> proprietary drivers: in kernel-devel-3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64, >>>>>>> there is a file >>>>>>> /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64/include/linux/fence.h >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It does not exist in the kernel-devel-3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 >>>>>>> package. Is this something that got missed, or did HR drop it, >>>>> or....? >> >>> Sorry, but I really don't believe it is good, much less best practice >>> to do something like removing a kernel include file within one release. If >>> they'd made it go a away for 7.0, I would deal, but to suddenly drop >>> it, bad. >> >> Tell it to Linus, not us: >> >> https://lwn.net/Articles/685049/ > Well, I d/l the latest from NVidia, and that one built. Of course, now I'm going to really worry about several of my users, who have old - as in 5-10 year old, NVidia cards, who need legacy drivers, like the 304.
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This issue is fixed in recent releases, including the latest 304.137 legacy release. Nvidia are still actively supporting that driver, even if the hardware is "5-10 years old".