Custom RPM created for Fedora and others

[MartinHerrman]

I'm using fedora 24 workstation, which is currently running a 4.7 kernel. I reinstalled the package:

# dnf reinstall displaylink-1.0.335-1.x86_64.rpm 
Last metadata expiration check: 0:55:17 ago on Sun Sep  4 20:02:38 2016.
Dependencies resolved.
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 Package                                             Arch                                           Version                                             Repository                                            Size
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Reinstalling:
 displaylink                                         x86_64                                         1.0.335-1                                           @commandline                                         2.6 M

Transaction Summary
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Total size: 2.6 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
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  Reinstalling: displaylink-1.0.335-1.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                   1/2 
warning: %post(displaylink-1.0.335-1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 10
Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package displaylink
Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package displaylink
  Erasing     : displaylink-1.0.335-1.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                   2/2 
  Verifying   : displaylink-1.0.335-1.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                   1/2 
  Verifying   : displaylink-1.0.335-1.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                   2/2 

Reinstalled:
  displaylink.x86_64 1.0.335-1                                                                                                                                                                                     

Complete!

But unfortunately it doesn' t work. The EVDI module cannot be compiled. It looks like I have an incompatible library that provides DRM functions. Anyone who has an idea how this can be fixed?

  gcc -Wp,-MD,/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/.evdi_encoder.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/6.1.1/include -I./arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated  -Iinclude -I./arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I./include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include ./include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -std=gnu89 -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 -mtune=generic -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_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 -fstack-protector-strong -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-unused-const-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -fvar-tracking-assignments -g -pg -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY -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 -Iinclude/drm  -DMODULE  -DKBUILD_BASENAME='"evdi_encoder"'  -DKBUILD_MODNAME='"evdi"' -c -o /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_encoder.o /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_encoder.c
/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_modeset.c:124:16: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
   .fb_create = evdi_fb_user_fb_create,
                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_modeset.c:124:16: note: (near initialization for ‘evdi_mode_funcs.fb_create’)
/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_modeset.c: In function ‘evdi_modeset_init’:
/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_modeset.c:148:3: error: too many arguments to function ‘drm_dev_set_unique’
   drm_dev_set_unique(dev, "%s", dev_name(dev->dev));
   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_modeset.c:14:0:
include/drm/drmP.h:1085:5: note: declared here
 int drm_dev_set_unique(struct drm_device *dev, const char *name);
     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
scripts/Makefile.build:289: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_modeset.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_modeset.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_encoder.c: In function ‘evdi_encoder_init’:
/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_encoder.c:72:12: error: too few arguments to function ‘drm_encoder_init’
   status = drm_encoder_init(dev, encoder, &evdi_enc_funcs, DRM_MODE_ENCODER_TMDS);
            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from include/drm/drmP.h:68:0,
                 from /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_encoder.c:13:
include/drm/drm_crtc.h:2283:5: note: declared here
 int drm_encoder_init(struct drm_device *dev,
     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
scripts/Makefile.build:289: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_encoder.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_encoder.o] Error 1
  if [ "-pg" = "-pg" ]; then if [ /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_connector.o != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then ./scripts/recordmcount  "/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_connector.o"; fi; fi;
  if [ "-pg" = "-pg" ]; then if [ /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_drv.o != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then ./scripts/recordmcount  "/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_drv.o"; fi; fi;
Makefile:1461: recipe for target '_module_/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/4.7.2-201.fc24.x86_64'
Makefile:18: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2