<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>It's your decision, you are the maintainer. I'll confine myself therefore to technical aspects.<br><br></div>1) Packaging a piece of software also means to adapt it to how things work in a specific distribution. So one would expect that permissions for the nvidia devices reproduce the logic of the distribution for dri devices.<br>
</div> (Principle of least surprise.)<br><br></div>2) Of course nvidia-modprobe works. It's suid root. It will create the device files and change permissions on the fly so that everyone gets through. No problems are to be expected, it's a real wheel.<br>
<br></div>3) Nnvidia-modprobe now loads everything on an "is needed" basis, not only nvidia-uvm. Given the size of this module and that it's not really new but something factored out, who cares? It was there before just not singled out.<br>
<br></div>As for other distributions: Of course, I've looked around what they do. Rpmfusion is heading in your direction<br>(minimalistic working base with least effort), those I've looked at and that will include nvidia-uvm also piggy-back nvidia-uvm (because it cannot be automatically loaded, it's linux/udev agnostic), and Debian has actually a working solution for option #1 in my list (just found and tested).<br>
<br></div>That said I don't have any problems with you taking another approach. This was just an attempt to contribute something back to a package I was using for a long time without hassle.<br><br></div>-Michael<br></div>