[vbox-dev] Keeping up with Linus?

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Sat May 3 22:07:50 GMT 2008


walt wrote:
> I just tried building trunk against Linus' current kernel and
> failed because NOPAGE_SIGBUS was just removed on 28 April.
> 
> Is this kind of thing worth filing a new bug report for?  Do
> the vbox devs even attempt to keep up with Linus?

Based on the response I got to some patches that I submitted in the 
2.6.24-gitX ( == 2.6.25-pre-rc1) time frame, my guess is NO. If you wait 
until Linus issues 2.6.26-rc1, then file a bug report, it may be more successful.

In my case, I didn't need the vbox devs to fix it, I was just trying to be 
helpful to the community.

This has not been tested, but you might try adding the following at the 
beginning of src/VBox/Additions/linux/sharedfolders/regops.c:

#ifndef NOPAGE_SIGBUS
#define NOPAGE_SIGBUS VM_FAULT_SIGBUS
#endif


Larry





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