[vbox-dev] misc_deregister changes to void from int in Linux kernel 4.3-rc1, breaks Virtualbox build

[Frank Mehnert]

Hi Alessandro,

On Wednesday 16 September 2015 11:59:15 Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> This has already been (sort of) reported on vboxusers - while trying to see
> if new SVN releases fix my compiling problem in the 5.0 series (manual.pdf
> be damned :( ), I advanced both kernel to 4.3-rc1 and SVN to 57718.
> 
> Relevant background:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/30/815
> 
> Proposed (possibly too conservative, using preprocessor directives to
> condition compilation based on KERNEL_VERSION check) patch to ignore the
>  misc_deregister reportedly useless return code is attached.

Thanks! Similar patch applied yesterday.

Frank
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