{"id":639,"date":"2013-02-18T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2013-02-18T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T19:53:09","slug":"3-7-9-and-a-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"3.7.9 – and a Surprise.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Just updated to 3.7.9<\/strong>, but forgot<\/span> to do the usual ‘softlink’ for correct compilation of VMware..
\n# ln -s \/usr\/src\/linux-3.7.9\/include\/generated\/uapi\/linux\/version.h \/usr\/src\/linux-3.7.9\/include\/linux\/version.h<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I ran the compilation for the the latest ‘stable’ NVIDIA driver (310.32), but discovered that – with 3.7.9 – this failed, as well!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To save time, I had been creating the softlink after compiling the latest kernel, but before rebooting, so the the VMware driver would ‘automatically’ recompile as part of the boot process.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This had – of course – been masking the problem with the NVIDIA compile, as the softlink was usually already in place by the time this was done – after the reboot….<\/p>\n

There hadn’t been a problem with the earlier 3.7.x kernels, and so I tried a test with 3.7.7, and the same problem occurred – and was fixed by the softlink..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I had already deleted earlier versions, so was not able to test with these..<\/p>\n

I then tried the same tests with 310.32 on 3.8-rc7, and there was no problem…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As with earlier 3.7.x kernels, the ‘softlink’ for version.h was only needed for VMware..<\/p>\n

After some more research, it appears that this has already been reported on the NVIDIA DevZone forum, and mentions that the problem started with 3.7.6..
\nhttps:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/529620\/latest-stable-driver-310-32-wont-compile-on-stable-kernel-3-7-6-3-7-7-3-7-8\/<\/a><\/p>\n

There is a link to a patch, there, but I haven’t tried this, as the softlink for VMware does the job, for me..<\/p>\n

So – the fix for VMware and<\/span> NVIDIA on later 3.7.x kernels is the same:
\n# ln -s \/usr\/src\/linux-3.7.x\/include\/generated\/uapi\/linux\/version.h \/usr\/src\/linux-3.7.x\/include\/linux\/version.h<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 February 18th 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just updated to 3.7.9, but forgot to do the usual ‘softlink’ for correct compilation of VMware.. # ln -s \/usr\/src\/linux-3.7.9\/include\/generated\/uapi\/linux\/version.h \/usr\/src\/linux-3.7.9\/include\/linux\/version.h I ran the compilation for the the latest ‘stable’ NVIDIA driver (310.32), but discovered that – with 3.7.9 – this failed, as well!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To save time, I had been creating the softlink after compiling the latest …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,11,14,15,18,19,20],"tags":[439,438,437,440,441,161,436,277,342,393,418],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-performance-2","tag-3-7-6","tag-3-7-7","tag-3-7-8","tag-compile-fail","tag-driver-310-32","tag-fix","tag-kernel-3-7-9","tag-nvidia-2","tag-softlink","tag-version-h","tag-workaround"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}