Hmm. After updating kernel-default kernel-default-devel kernel-devel from 5.11.2-1 to 5.11.4-1 kernel modules have been built and installed and no dangling symlinks created. X works fine, modules are loaded and active. # find . -name nvidia* | xargs ls -ld drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 24 23:42 ./5.10.16-1-default/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 8 11:15 ./5.11.2-1-default/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3761000 Mar 16 21:59 ./5.11.2-1-default/updates/nvidia-drm.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49582696 Mar 16 21:59 ./5.11.2-1-default/updates/nvidia.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2203392 Mar 16 21:59 ./5.11.2-1-default/updates/nvidia-modeset.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40844136 Mar 16 21:59 ./5.11.2-1-default/updates/nvidia-uvm.ko drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 16 22:03 ./5.11.4-1-default/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3761000 Mar 16 22:06 ./5.11.4-1-default/updates/nvidia-drm.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49582696 Mar 16 22:06 ./5.11.4-1-default/updates/nvidia.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2203248 Mar 16 22:06 ./5.11.4-1-default/updates/nvidia-modeset.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40844608 Mar 16 22:06 ./5.11.4-1-default/updates/nvidia-uvm.ko Unfortunately I don't have any kernel packages available for testing with same release but different patch number ...