Just installed the newly-released kernel 3.11-rc1 on the test system…

VMware Workstation 9.02 – with the 3.10 patches for vmnet and vmblock – compiles OK, but – for some reason – the modules don’t install using the usual command (# vmware-modconfig –console –install-all)..    But, the ‘user’ command does work, (# vmware-modconfig –icon=vmware-workstation –appname=VMware, or just type # vmware, from an X console).    This means that the usual auto-recompile when booting a ‘new’ kernel won’t work…

NVIDIA driver 319.32, with the kernel 3.10 patch, does not compile:
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/home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.32-310/kernel/os-interface.c: In function ‘os_get_system_memory_size’:
/home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.32-310/kernel/os-interface.c:255:21: error: ‘num_physpages’ undeclared (first use in this function)
return (((NvU64)NV_NUM_PHYSPAGES * PAGE_SIZE) / RM_PAGE_SIZE);
^
/home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.32-310/kernel/os-interface.c:255:21: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
/home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.32-310/kernel/os-interface.c:256:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
}
^
make[4]: *** [/home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.32-310/kernel/os-interface.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.32-310/kernel] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
nvidia.ko failed to build!
make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2

Robert Gadsdon.    July 15, 2013