[vbox-dev] VBox kernel module does not build on kernel 3.5-rc1

Sérgio Basto sergio at serjux.com
Wed Jun 13 15:06:13 GMT 2012


On Ter, 2012-06-12 at 15:55 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: 
> On Wednesday 06 June 2012 07:13:40 Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > Klaus , your message should go to List isn't it ? not only for me
> > 
> > On 05.06.2012 18:17, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Seg, 2012-06-04 at 18:13 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> > >> There is a patch available from
> > >> http://mlau.at/files/vbox-4116-35rc0.patch. Manuel Lauss wrote it. With
> > >> it, the kernel module builds, but I have not yet tested the resulting
> > >> module.
> > > 
> > > Let me know what is include in main stream of VirtualBox, I will need
> > > it, for sure, to compile in Fedora rawhide .
> > 
> > It'll take a bit longer to figure out if this is 100% correct, and also
> > working in older Linux versions... we're on it.
> > 
> > Thanks to everyone helping with this (including Al Viro, who tried to
> > make the necessary changes to VirtualBox, and already saw that it might
> > be a bit more complicated).
> 
> Thanks Sérgio. Please have a look at
> 
>   https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/41660/vbox
> 
> This change should make it possible to compile the VirtualBox kernel
> modules against Linux 3.5.

Hi, 
After apply changeset 41660 
I got a new implicit-function-declaration:
  CC
[M]  /builddir/build/BUILD/VirtualBox-kmod-4.1.16/_kmod_build_3.5.0-0.rc2.git0.3.fc18.x86_64/vboxsf/lnkops.o
/builddir/build/BUILD/VirtualBox-kmod-4.1.16/_kmod_build_3.5.0-0.rc2.git0.3.fc18.x86_64/vboxsf/vfsmod.c: In function 'sf_evict_inode':
/builddir/build/BUILD/VirtualBox-kmod-4.1.16/_kmod_build_3.5.0-0.rc2.git0.3.fc18.x86_64/vboxsf/vfsmod.c:376:5: error: implicit declaration of function 'end_writeback' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

Thanks,
-- 
Sérgio M. B.





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