Kernel – 4.12 Final Released – OK with Latest VMware and NVIDIA..
Kernel 4.12 is out, and brief details of changes from -rc7 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1707.0/00325.html You can find more detailed info from the kernel git site: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?h=v4.12&showmsg=1
The latest versions of VMware (12.5.7) and NVIDIA (384.47-beta and 381.22) compile and load/run OK with 4.12..
Robert Gadsdon. July 2, 2017.
I just ran Linux 4.12.1 with VMware 12.5.7 and NVIDIA 384.47 final and everything worked without incident on Mint 18.1 (Ubuntu 16.04.3). No workarounds needed. 🙂