I encountered a catastrophic problem with btrfs formatted system disk partition corruption, shortly after updating a test system to Kernel 4.11-rc1. To put this in context, this may be an isolated incident, and I have not seen problems – so far – mentioned elsewhere.. But.. there a quite a lot of BTRFS changes on 4.11, and – … Continue reading →
Thanks to Virgo, there are now patches for vmnet and vmmon with Kernel 4.11 (see his comments under the earlier article). These are incremental patches, for application to VMware 12.5.2 code already patched for Kernel 4.9/4.10 support.. Links are here: http://pastebin.com/McqmUf0u and http://pastebin.com/yjbDHiSX I have modified these (adding appropriate #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE…… #endif statements) to be backward-compatible with … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.11-rc1 has been released, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1703.0/03031.html Updated the test system, and 4.10-patched versions of VMware 12.5.2 and NVIDIA 378.13 fail to compile.. VMware (12.5.2 – patched for 4.9/4.10): …………. /tmp/modconfig-rRcJiJ/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIFFastClockThread’: /tmp/modconfig-rRcJiJ/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:3267:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘allow_signal’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] allow_signal(SIGKILL); ^~~~~~~~~~~~ /tmp/modconfig-rRcJiJ/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIF_SetFastClockRate’: /tmp/modconfig-rRcJiJ/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:3421:10: error: implicit declaration of … Continue reading →