[vbox-dev] Linux Additions init script bug (Linux 4.0)

[Frank Mehnert]

On Tuesday 03 March 2015 13:37:24 Larry Finger wrote:
> On 03/03/2015 05:43 AM, Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello wrote:
> > And we are bitten again.
> > 
> > https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2013-August/011718.html
> > 
> > Suggestion (plus grep cleanup):
> > 
> > --- vboxadd.sh.orig     2014-05-06 07:02:16.000000000 -0300
> > +++ vboxadd.sh  2015-03-03 08:27:39.199344842 -0300
> > @@ -286,8 +286,8 @@
> > 
> >   start()
> >   {
> >   
> >       begin "Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions ";
> > 
> > -    uname -r | grep -q -E '^2\.6|^3' 2>/dev/null &&
> > -        ps -A -o comm | grep -q '/*udevd$' 2>/dev/null ||
> > +    expr `uname -r` '>=' '2.6' >/dev/null &&
> > +        ps -A -o comm | grep -q '/*udevd$' ||
> 
> Ah, a long-term solution! :)
> 
> Seriously, is anyone going to be using VirtualBox on any version of Linux
> older than 2.6? After all, 2.6.32 is the only 2.6 kernel still being
> maintained at kernel.org.

That doesn't matter. The VirtualBox Guest Additions still support Linux 2.4
and I see no reason to restrict the code to newer kernels. Of course that's
completely different on hosts.

Frank
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