On 03/03/2013 08:11 AM, Alec Warner wrote: > > There was a big ole' chat on #gentoo-dev regarding this. My > understanding of the summary is that the nvidia-driver Gentoo team > only supports kernels that nvidia themselves (upstream) support. The > Kernels > 3.4 are not supported by upstream, so they are also not > supported in Gentoo. I believe the ebuild contains instructions on > using user_patches to get these patches. The nvidia maintainers in > Gentoo do not want to be responsible for those patches though; this is > why they are not included (and why your commit was reverted.) > > I do not find their stance wholly unreasonable. They offered to point > users at an overlay, if someone was willing to maintain the patches > there (in lieu of user_patches.) The end result is that if users apply > the patches, they will get an unsupported setup. There is a fear as > well, that the patches may damage cards (since the patches are not > supported by the vendor.)
What do we have useflags for in gentoo? add a "unsupported-kernels" useflag, mask it, add a clear statement in the masking reason and be done
