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From: Michael Hampicke <mgehampicke@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:04:54
Message-Id: CADPZhuqZLtMQf_E03t1uRCg9uSYOAmBXpy2z2+5YmSjCU5YVrw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules by walt
1 2013/2/20 walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
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3 > Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for Linus to
4 > start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and
5 > virtualbox-
6 > modules is the first (nvidia.ko and other kernel modules to follow,
7 > probably ;)
8 >
9 > Virtualbox-modules fails to build against today's kernel.git update from
10 > Linus,
11 > with an error message that "MAX_PRIO is undefined" in
12 > thread2-r0drv-linux.c.
13 >
14 > The fix is happily very simple because he moved the definition of MAX_PRIO
15 > into <linux/init_task.h>, so all you need to do is to add that include near
16 > the top of thread2-r0drv-linux.c.
17 >
18 >
19 r8168 breaks too, but I haven't looked into it yet.