I'm still running on my old kernel as I re-build my system, Nvidia drivers just barfed
########################### tortoise src # ls -l total 12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 5 09:50 linux -> linux-4.10.8/ drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Apr 5 10:01 linux-4.10.8 drwxrwxr-x 25 root root 4096 Apr 4 22:34 linux-4.6.7 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Nov 23 2014 rpm tortoise src # ########################### x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/nvidia/.nv-pat.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/5.4.0/include -I/usr/src/linux-4.10.8/arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated -I/usr/src/linux-4.10.8/include -I./include -I/usr/src/linux-4.10.8/arch/x86/include/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-4.10.8/include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-4.10.8/include/linux/kconfig.h -I/usr/src/linux-4.10.8//var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -std=gnu89 -fno-PIE -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -m64 -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -mno-80387 -mno-fp-ret-in-387 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mskip-rax-setup -march=k8 -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SSSE3=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CRC32=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX512=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SHA1_NI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SHA256_NI=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -O2 --param=allow-store-data-races=0 -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -fno-stack-protector -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -fno-var-tracking-assignments -fno-inline-functions-called-once -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -Werror=implicit-int -Werror=strict-prototypes -Werror=date-time -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/common/inc -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel -Wall -MD -Wsign-compare -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNVRM -DNV_VERSION_STRING=\"378.13\" -Wno-unused-function -Wuninitialized -fno-strict-aliasing -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -DNV_UVM_ENABLE -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-format-extra-args -Werror=undef -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/nvidia -DNV_BUILD_MODULE_INSTANCES=0 -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME='"nv_pat"' -DKBUILD_MODNAME='"nvidia"' -c -o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c: In function ‘nvidia_cpu_callback’: /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c:213:14: error: ‘CPU_DOWN_FAILED’ undeclared (first use in this function) case CPU_DOWN_FAILED: ^ /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c:213:14: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c:220:14: error: ‘CPU_DOWN_PREPARE’ undeclared (first use in this function) case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE: ^ In file included from /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c:15:0: /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c: In function ‘nv_init_pat_support’: /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/common/inc/nv-linux.h:391:34: error: implicit declaration of function ‘register_cpu_notifier’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] #define register_hotcpu_notifier register_cpu_notifier ^ /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c:258:17: note: in expansion of macro ‘register_hotcpu_notifier’ if (register_hotcpu_notifier(&nv_hotcpu_nfb) != 0) ^ /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c: In function ‘nv_teardown_pat_support’: /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/common/inc/nv-linux.h:388:36: error: implicit declaration of function ‘unregister_cpu_notifier’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] #define unregister_hotcpu_notifier unregister_cpu_notifier ^ /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c:283:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘unregister_hotcpu_notifier’ unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&nv_hotcpu_nfb); ^ cc1: some warnings being treated as errors make[3]: *** [/usr/src/linux-4.10.8/scripts/Makefile.build:295: /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [/usr/src/linux-4.10.8/Makefile:1490: _module_/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13/work/kernel] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.10.8' make[1]: *** [Makefile:150: sub-make] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.10.8' make: *** [Makefile:81: modules] Error 2 * ERROR: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378.13::gentoo failed (compile phase): -- Strange Game. 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