4.19-rc3 incompatible with nvidia driver

[valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 20:47:41 +0200, Daan Wendelen said:

> 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?

The short form:

Out of tree modules are the problem of their maintainers. Kernel support
is basically limited to not intentionally breaking the basic mechanism for
compiling an out-of-tree module.

The long form:

Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst - go read it.
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