Bug#701690: nvidia: disagrees about version of symbol efi_enabled

Andreas Beckmann anbe at debian.org
Tue Feb 26 21:54:42 UTC 2013


On 2013-02-26 14:44, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 13:24 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 10:35 +0200, Antti Salmela wrote:
>>> ABI seems to have changed with the latest 3.2.39-1 kernel. Proprietary
>>> nvidia driver (313.18-2)  from experimental fails to load if compiled
>>> against previous (or maybe even original...) linux-headers-3.2.0-4-amd64
>>> packages, but works after recompile.

Antti, did you use the -dkms package or the -source package and
module-assistant?

>>> [   14.383562] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
>>> [   14.386689] nvidia: disagrees about version of symbol efi_enabled
>>> [   14.386692] nvidia: Unknown symbol efi_enabled (err -22)
>> [...]
>>
>> Sorry, I ignored this ABI change because codesearch.debian.net didn't
>> show the symbol being used by out-of-tree modules.  Perhaps it doesn't
>> include non-free code, or this was changed between unstable and
>> experimental.
> 
> Oh, now I see, the code is packaged up in a way that can't be searched.
> 
> Ben.
> 
>> I'll see what I can do to fix this.  (And unfortunately if the change is
>> reverted then you'll need to rebuild the module again.)

Ben, Should I upload nvidia-graphics-modules rebuilt against 3.2.39-1?

Andreas



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