Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: dkms

Proprietary modules (like fgrlx) usually need an update to build against
newer kernels than what the driver was tested with. People installing
backported kernels (either from a distro release or vanilla upstream
ones) face problems when the build fails against such a kernel, and
apport files bugs which have to be cleaned afterwards.

There should be a way to tell dkms not to build a module for kernels
newer than $FOO, or (maybe preferably) at least make the failure non-
fatal so that the package still installs fine but issues a warning that
the build failed for some kernel(s).

** Affects: dkms (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: New

** Changed in: dkms (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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Title:
  RFC: add a mechanism to disable building a module for known bad
  kernels

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