Kernel – 4.7-rc1 Breaks NVIDIA and VMware..
Kernel 4.7-rc1 is out, and brief details are here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/29/77 The update breaks the latest NVIDIA drivers – 367.18 and 361.45.11: ………. /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.18/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm_linux.h:557:13: error: redefinition of ‘radix_tree_empty’ static bool radix_tree_empty(struct radix_tree_root *tree) ……………………………. /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.18/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem.c: In function ‘nvidia_drm_dumb_map_offset’: /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.18/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem.c:411:33: error: passing argument 1 of ‘drm_gem_object_lookup’ from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] gem = drm_gem_object_lookup(dev, file, handle); …………………… ..and, breaks … Continue reading →