Just installed Kernel 3.16-rc1 on the test system, and the latest VMware (10.0.2) and NVIDIA (340.17) compile and load OK…

# uname -a 
Linux rg6830l 3.16.0-rc1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jun 16 09:57:01 BST 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Brief details are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1406.2/00001.html

Robert Gadsdon.   June 16, 2014..