Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 10/05/2017 10:17 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Albert McCann wrote: >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of m.roth at 5- >>>> cent.us >>>> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2017 10:58 AM >>>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> >>>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Missing file in current kernel-devel package >>>> >>>> Fred Smith wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 09:56:57AM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> 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....? >>>>>> >>>>> I'm running that kernel with Nvidia 384.90, but I get the nvidia >>>>> driver from elrepo. where do you get yours? >>>>> >>>> Proprietary NVidia. Still, why is fence.h suddenly not there? >>> >>> While I'm running the Plus kernel, it has the same files. What I'm >>> seeing here is that fence.h has been renamed in the 693 kernel to dma-fence.h: >>> >>> # locate fence.h >>> >>> /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.centos.plus.x86_64/include/linux/fence.h >>> /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.centos.plus.x86_64/include/linux/seqno-fence.h >>> /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.centos.plus.x86_64/include/trace/events/fenhttps://lwn.net/Articles/685049/ce.h >>> /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.centos.plus.x86_64/include/linux/dma-fence.h >>> /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.centos.plus.x86_64/include/linux/seqno-fence.h >>> /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.centos.plus.x86_64/include/trace/events/dma_fence.h >>> >>> Looks like upstream renamed it for some reason. >> >> Not good - I did a diff of fence.h and dma_fence.h, it *appears* to be >> the >> same structures, but all with different names. That's not going to >> compile. >> >> 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/ Read taht, and two things aren't clear to me: first, there a long discussion of fence for andoroid. Secon, at the bottom, it's still showing include/Linux/fence.h I've also just d/l the current proprietary driver from NVida - I had 375, this is 384, and when I decide, sometime this afternoon, to reboot, come up with the new kernel, I'll try building that. mark mark