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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:58:07
Message-Id: CAJ0EP40zwvTEo5f3N3U34PM3Y3k4vkdgY8VAq9KQaRAQny17Mg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules by walt
1 On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:40 AM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for Linus to
3 > start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and virtualbox-
4 > modules is the first (nvidia.ko and other kernel modules to follow, probably ;)
5 >
6
7 Linus just merges the stuff. No need to make it sound like a personal vendetta.
8
9 > Virtualbox-modules fails to build against today's kernel.git update from Linus,
10 > with an error message that "MAX_PRIO is undefined" in thread2-r0drv-linux.c.
11 >
12 > The fix is happily very simple because he moved the definition of MAX_PRIO
13 > into <linux/init_task.h>, so all you need to do is to add that include near
14 > the top of thread2-r0drv-linux.c.
15 >
16
17 MAX_PRIO actually moved to linux/sched/rt.h, which linux/init_task.h #includes.

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[gentoo-user] Re: ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de>