{"id":1555,"date":"2015-09-13T03:57:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T02:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2015-09-13T03:57:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T02:57:23","slug":"kernel-4-3-rc1-breaks-nvidia-and-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1555","title":{"rendered":"Kernel – 4.3-rc1 – Breaks NVIDIA and VMware.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated the test system to Kernel 4.3-rc1<\/strong>..<\/p>\n

$ uname -a<\/span><\/strong>\r\nLinux rg6830l 4.3.0-rc1 #1 SMP Sat Sep 12 19:15:35 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
Brief details of changes are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1509.1\/03200.html<\/a><\/p>\n
The NVIDIA gpl_only<\/em><\/strong> issue has been fixed in linux\/kernel\/workqueue.c<\/span><\/strong>, but the compile now fails even before that is reached:<\/p>\n
\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.11\/kernel\/nvidia\/nv-procfs.c: In function \u2018nv_procfs_read_registry\u2019:<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.11\/kernel\/nvidia\/nv-procfs.c:363:12: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be<\/span><\/strong>\r\n return seq_printf(s, \"Binary: \\\"%s\\\"\\n\", registry_keys);<\/span><\/strong>\r\n ^<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.11\/kernel\/nvidia\/nv-procfs.c: In function \u2018nv_procfs_read_text_file\u2019:<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.11\/kernel\/nvidia\/nv-procfs.c:563:12: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be<\/span><\/strong>\r\n return seq_puts(s, s->private);<\/span><\/strong>\r\n ^<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
VMware 12 vmmon<\/span><\/strong> compile fails, with a similar error:<\/p>\n
\/tmp\/modconfig-y2Cuiv\/vmmon-only\/linux\/driver.c: In function \u2018cleanup_module\u2019:<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\/tmp\/modconfig-y2Cuiv\/vmmon-only\/linux\/driver.c:390:8: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be<\/span><\/strong>\r\n if (misc_deregister(&linuxState.misc)) {<\/span><\/strong>\r\n ^\r\n.................\r\nUnable to install all modules. See log for details.\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 September 12, 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Updated the test system to Kernel 4.3-rc1.. $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.3.0-rc1 #1 SMP Sat Sep 12 19:15:35 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux Brief details of changes are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1509.1\/03200.html The NVIDIA gpl_only issue has been fixed in linux\/kernel\/workqueue.c, but the compile now fails even before that is reached: \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.11\/kernel\/nvidia\/nv-procfs.c: In function \u2018nv_procfs_read_registry\u2019: \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.11\/kernel\/nvidia\/nv-procfs.c:363:12: error: …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,14,15,18,25],"tags":[969,1189,1188,277,402],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-vmware","tag-compile-fails","tag-error-void-value-not-ignored","tag-kernel-4-3-rc1","tag-nvidia-2","tag-vmware-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}