Isn't there already a mechanism in place for handling this? It could be extended 
to any new uncovered items pretty easily, I'd imagine.

{o.o}

On 2014-12-17 10:35, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> Forwarding a message from Phil Perry of ELRepo, maintainer of the
> kmod-nvidia package. If you currently use the Nvidia graphics driver,
> please read on.
>
> Akemi
>
> ============================================
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just wanted to give a heads up to any NVIDIA users that NVIDIA are
> dropping support for older hardware based on G8xxx, G9xxx and GT2xx
> chipsets in their latest display drivers. The last version to support
> these older chipsets will be the current Long Lived 340.xx branch.
>
> If anyone is using NVIDIA driver packages from elrepo, legacy 340.xx
> driver packages are now available for those affected. There is a thread
> on the elrepo mailing list here:
>
> http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2014-September/002362.html
> http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2014-December/002447.html
>
> There is also an updated version of nvidia-detect (v343.36) available
> which will tell users if they are affected and need to switch to the new
> 340.xx legacy driver packages or whether their hardware will continue to
> be supported by future NVIDIA driver releases.
>
> Obviously we would like to avoid a situation where folks 'yum update'
> their drivers to a release that doesn't support their hardware and
> breaks their system. Thus we would like to help users who will be
> affected transition to the correct legacy driver now and so avoid future
> issues.
>
> If anyone needs any advice / help, please just ask.
>