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= Main Inclusion Report for nvidia-modprobe =

== Requirements ==

 0. ''Availability:'' [[http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/n/nvidia-modprobe/|available for i386 and amd64]]
 0. ''Rationale:''
  * This package is needed as a dependency of nvidia-graphics-drivers-* and of nvidia-graphics-drivers-*-updates (main), so that applications making use of CUDA or Nvidia's OpenCL ICD can load the nvidia-uvm driver without requiring root access. 
 0. ''Security:''
  * [[http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=nvidia-modprobe|CVE entries]]: none
  * [[https://secunia.com/search/?search=nvidia-modprobe|Secunia history]]: none
  * [[http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/pkg/nvidia-modprobe.html|Ubuntu CVE's]]: none
 0. ''Quality assurance:''
  * Works out of the box without configuration
  * No debconf questions
  * [[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=nvidia-modprobe|Debian bugs]]: none
  * [[https://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nvidia-modprobe.html|Maintenance in Debian]] is vigorous
  * [[ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-modprobe/|Upstream]] is vigorous
 0. ''UI standards:''
  * None.
 0. ''Standards compliance:'' 
  * [[http://www.pathname.com/fhs/|FHS]], [[http://www.de.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/|Debian Policy 3.9.6]] compliant
 0. ''Dependencies:''
  * libc6 (main)
 0. ''Maintenance:''
  * Debian responsible for bugs.
 0. ''Background information:''
  * From [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-331/+bug/1361207|LP: #1361207]]: nvidia-modprobe allows non-root users to load NVIDIA kernel modules and it creates the respective device entries. This is important for CUDA users as they would otherwise have to run a workaround script to load the kernel modules and create the device entries. This is documented here:
http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/6_5/rel/docs/CUDA_Getting_Started_Linux.pdf -> 4.8 Verification

== Reviewers ==

MIR bug: [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-modprobe/+bug/1421209|LP: #1421209]]