[vbox-dev] Fixes for kernel 5.6

Frank Batschulat frank.batschulat at oracle.com
Thu Feb 20 19:32:57 GMT 2020


Larry can you please follow up with this in

Ticket #19312 (assigned defect)
Opened 6 days ago
Last modified 6 days ago
Linux: kernel 5.6 - we need changes
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19312


On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 20:24:54 +0100, Larry Finger  
<Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I finally got subscribed to this list after losing the newsgroup feed  
> from
> Gmane. The fix for a small API change in kernel V5.6 is attached.
>
> As usual, the patch is released under the MIT license.
>
> I have not checked, but it is possible that ioremap_nocache() can be  
> replaced by
> ioremap() unconditionally, rather than by testing for kernel 5.6.0 or  
> greater.
>
> Larry


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