RPM installation fails with modprobe: FATAL: Module gdrdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/6.9/

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rpm -Uvh gdrcopy-kmod-2.5-1dkms.el9.noarch.rpm

Verifying...                          ################################# [100%]
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:gdrcopy-kmod-2.5-1dkms           ################################# [100%]
Start gdrcopy-kmod installation.
Building and installing to all available kernels.
This process may take a few minutes ...
modprobe: FATAL: Module gdrdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/6.9/
Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/gdrcopy.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/gdrcopy.service'.
Job for gdrcopy.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status gdrcopy.service" and "journalctl -xeu gdrcopy.service" for details.

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