What is the deal with rpmfusion nvidia updates?

[Neal Becker]

Stephen Morris wrote:

> On 11/11/2014 01:53 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
>> Joe Zeff wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/09/2014 01:40 AM, Mike Chambers wrote:
>>>> Try to install the new kernel first, then after, see if the new kmod
>>>> will update.
>>> Speaking from experience, when you update the kernel, the new kmod (if
>>> available) is normally drawn in as a dependency.
>> Except when, as I just showed, it isn't.
> Just my 2 cents worth, as I understand things the kernel does not have
> kmod-nvidia as a dependency, its the other way around, kmod-nvidia has a
> dependency on the kernel version it has been compiled for. For example,
> when I did a full system update yesterday the kernel was upgraded to the
> latest version available in the mirrors dnf is using and kmod-nvidia was
> upgraded to 3.16.6 at the same time, and then this morning rpm fusion
> notified of an upgrade to kmod-nvidia to 3.16.7. I have just done a
> normal 'dnf upgrade' which upgraded, in my case, kmod-nvidia and
> kmod-virtualbox both to 3.16.7.
> Just further to this I have also been in the situation where a kernel
> has been updated and kmod-nvidia has not and at boot time the nvidia
> driver would not start because the installed one was not compatible with
> the new kernel. My system was still usable because I could reboot into
> the older kernel that was compatible with the installed kmod-nvidia
> driver, but in addition, xorg also falls back to the nouveau driver if
> the nvidia driver doesn't work, and, if the nouveau driver is not
> available it falls back to the vga driver before it gives up.
> Having said this, compatibility between kmod-nvidia and the kernel is
> not that big a deal for me as I also have akmod-nvidia installed so the
> driver will be compiled and installed at boot time if necessary anyway.
> 
> regards,
> Steve
> 
>>

I don't think I've ever seen this fallback to nouveau behavior.  I believe the 
nouveau kernel parts are excluded at boot, so I don't know how that could work.

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