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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:31:02
Message-Id: 1361435446.14955.0@numa-i
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules by walt
1 On 02/20/2013 02:40:16 PM, walt wrote:
2 > Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for
3 > 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
10 > from 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
15 > MAX_PRIO
16 > into <linux/init_task.h>, so all you need to do is to add that
17 > include near
18 > the top of thread2-r0drv-linux.c.
19 >
20
21 Strange, but that doesn't happen for me.
22 I have vanilla 3.8.0 here and virtualbox-modules-4.2.6 builds just fine.
23 Am I special?
24
25 Helmut.