Kernel 4.18-rc1 has been released – earlier than expected, but Linus is in Japan, where it was already Sunday..

Brief details are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1806.2/00125.html

Tested with VMware 14.1.2, and vmmon/vmnet compile OK, but NVIDIA fails:

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CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.67/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.o
In file included from /usr/src/linux-4.18-rc1/include/drm/drmP.h:82,
from /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.67/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-priv.h:30,
from /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.67/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:25:
/home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.67/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:637:23: error: ‘DRM_CONTROL_ALLOW’ undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean ‘DRM_RENDER_ALLOW’?
DRM_CONTROL_ALLOW|DRM_UNLOCKED),
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/src/linux-4.18-rc1/include/drm/drm_ioctl.h:162:12: note: in definition of macro ‘DRM_IOCTL_DEF_DRV’
.flags = _flags, \
^~~~~~
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/linux-4.18-rc1/scripts/Makefile.build:318: /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.67/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.o] Error 1
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Thanks to HERB. there is a fix for this, at http://mom.hlmjr.com/2018/06/11/nvidia-drivers-390-67-vs-kernel-4-17/

This patch is for 390.67 specifically, and would need modifying for other versions..     I have tested the patch, and it applies cleanly, and 390.67 compiles OK with 4.18-rc1..

UPDATE:  After further testing…  VMware compiles OK, but runtime fails, and even vmware-modconfig does not work:

# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
[AppLoader] GLib does not have GSettings support.   <--this is an existing warning (non-fatal) 
Received option outside of allowed bounds. Option was -1
Must use a valid mode. Use one of: ......

See comment below, from Michal Kubeček, with more info..    More testing is needed, and the results will be in a new article..

Robert Gadsdon.   June 17, 2018.