Just installed Kernel 3.16-rc6 on the test system, and – as expected – the latest VMware (10.0.3) and NVIDIA (340.24) compile and install OK…

# uname -a
Linux rglinux-i7 3.16.0-rc6 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 21 13:56:19 PDT 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Brief description of all the changes is here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1407.2/03637.html

Robert Gadsdon..   July 22, 2014.