Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Mar 2023 17:45:11 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/1] possibile regression in the mm_types | From | John Hubbard <> |
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On 3/12/23 15:41, Vincenzo Palazzo wrote: > While I was testing the last rc1 version on my build machine > I noticed that I was not able to build my nvidia driver and > also, the vboxhost/7.0.6_OSE driver while I was building [1]. > > So I noticed that this change was introduced in the 6.3-rc1 > and proposed by [2]. However, I think I can miss important > around this change, there may be some motivation to > have the `const` constraint here, > and this change needs to be done in the out-of-tree driver
Yes it does. The out of tree drivers are responsible for keeping themselves up to date.
Note also that this is an -rc kernel. NVIDIA is generally careful to keep its driver building against released kernels, but with -rc kernels we often just wait until the kernel is released, in order to avoid too much churn. Most customers don't (and shouldn't) run an -rc Linux kernel anyway, is why.
Anyway, no, we don't patch the upstream kernel for this kind of issue. But thanks for thinking about it. :)
thanks, -- John Hubbard NVIDIA
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