[vbox-dev] Full patch for 4.15

[Sérgio Basto]

On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 13:46 +0100, Alexander Eichner wrote:
> Hi Larry,
> 
> thanks a lot for the patch! I integrated it now and it will be
> available starting with the next maintenance releases of 5.1 and 5.2.

Vbox 5.2.6 doesn't build kmods with kernel 4.15-rc8 ! 


> Regards,
> Alexander
> 
> > On 02.12.2017 08:07, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > The attached patch file makes the necessary changes to the
> > VirtualBox 5.1.30 sources to allow the kernel modules to build with
> > kernel 4.15.
> > 
> > The API changes are of several types:
> > 
> > 1. The timer initialization routine init_timer_pinned() no longer
> > exists, and
> >   is replaced by timer_setup().
> > 2. The timer callback routine calling sequence is changed as is the
> > technique
> >   for getting the timer information from the callback parameters.
> > 3. The calling sequence for drm_encoder_find() is changed.
> > 4. The calling sequence for the .get and .set members of the
> > module_param_call()
> >   calls have changed.
> > 
> > This patch is released under the MIT license.
> > 
> > Larry
> > 
> > 
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> 
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Sérgio M. B.