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

[Antti Salmela <asalmela@iki.fi>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 01:24:38PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 10:35 +0200, Antti Salmela wrote:
> > Package: src:linux
> > Version: 3.2.39-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > [   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.

This does not affect precompiled binary module from nvidia-kernel-3.2.0-4-amd64
(304.64+1+1+3.2.32-1 from testing/unstable), or at least I could insmod it
without complaints.
 
> 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.)

No worries, this is unstable and experimental after all..

-- 
Antti