Just installed Kernel 4.5-rc1 on the test system, and NVIDIA 358.16 (and ‘beta’ 361.18) and VMware 12.1.0 all compile and load/run OK..

Details are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1601.3/00205.html

$ uname -a
Linux rglinux 4.5.0-rc1 #1 SMP Sun Jan 24 15:39:14 PST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Robert Gadsdon.   January 24, 2016.