ACK: [PATCH][SRU][E] Add nvidia-435 to linux-restricted-modules

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Dec 17 16:53:49 UTC 2019


LGTM.

Acked-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>

 -Kamal
 
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 10:18:39AM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1856407
> 
> SRU Justification
> 
> Impact: The nvidia-435 drivers are missing from linux-restricted-modules
> in eoan. On install ubuntu-drivers picks 435 as the newest version, and
> users must use self-signed dkms drivers and enroll a MOK.
> 
> Fix: Add nvidia-435 dkms builds to linux and l-r-m for eoan.
> 
> Test Case: A test build is available in ppa:sforshee/test-builds. Verify
> that signed drivers for nvidia-435 can be installed for eoan via the
> linux-modules-nvidia-435-{generic,lowlatency} packages.
> 
> Regression Potential: The nvidia-435 l-r-m drivers are new packages
> built from the same source as the nvidia-435 dkms driver, so regressions
> are unlikely.
> 
> This requires changes to both the linux and linux-restricted-modules
> packages. Patches for both follow.
> 
> Thanks,
> Seth
> 
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