[elrepo] Questions about rebuilding kmod-nvidia RPM for new kernel

[Rob Spearman]

I installed a 3.9.7-4 kernel on CentOS 6 (via the kernel's 'make rpm') 
and am running this kernel.  When I try to rebuild the proprietary 
nvidia driver RPMs using the 319.32 src RPM from elrepo, I have a number 
of issues.

1. I have to specify kversion as "3.9.7-4" on the rpmbuild command 
line.  This does not match the format in the spec file, which includes 
repo and arch.  Why the discrepancy?  Full command line is:

rpmbuild -bb nvidia-kmod.spec --define "kernels $(uname -r)" --define "kversion $(uname -r)" --target $(uname -m)


2. I can build the RPM, but it will not install.  It complains of what 
looks like kabi mismatch errors.  Examples:

kernel(__bitmap_weight) = 0x4cbbd171 is needed by kmod-nvidia-319.32-3.el6.x86_64

kernel(__const_udelay) = 0xeae3dfd6 is needed by kmod-nvidia-319.32-3.el6.x86_64

kernel(__get_free_pages) = 0x93fca811 is needed by kmod-nvidia-319.32-3.el6.x86_64

kernel(__init_waitqueue_head) = 0x68dfc59f is needed by kmod-nvidia-319.32-3.el6.x86_64


If I install anyway, the module will not load.  So it appears to be 
built incorrectly but I can not determine how this could be happening.

I can easily install the same nvidia driver version through the nvidia 
.run process, so it is not an nvidia problem.

Shouldn't this process work?  Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Rob