Comment 5 for bug 1427924

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kary (kari-kivioja) wrote :

I'm not sure, what this discussion is about. But as far as i know, you could fix Nvidia drivers:

In bug Bug #1409190 I wrote:
    ROOT CAUSE: In kernel headers, a feature that nvidia code depends on, has been removed in kernel 3.19:

        $ diff linux-headers-3.18.0-13/include/linux/fs.h linux-headers-3.19.0-7/include/linux/fs.h | grep f_dentry
        < #define f_dentry f_path.dentry

    WORKAROUND: Make nvidia code live without that feature:

        $ sudo sed -i~ s/f_dentry/f_path.dentry/ /usr/src/nvidia-304-304.125/nv.c
        $ apt list --installed 'linux*' | cut -d / -f 1 | grep 3.19 | xargs sudo apt install --reinstall

But if you are after a set of tests, that don't get bugged about failing packages, that's another kettle...