From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:15:30 +0200 Subject: 4.19-rc3 incompatible with nvidia driver In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20180920131530.GA2387@kroah.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 08:47:41PM +0200, Daan Wendelen wrote: > Hi, > > The latest nvidia driver is incompatible with 4.19-rc3 because > "drm_mode_connector_update_edid_property" got renamed to > "drm_connector_update_edid_property" and > "drm_mode_connector_attach_encoder" to "drm_connector_attach_encoder" in > the linux headers. > > Is this considered the fault of linux or is it considered nvidia's > responsibility to fix this? How can the kernel developers change code in a closed source external body of source? Hint, it's nvidia's responsibility :) thanks, greg k-h