{"id":601,"date":"2013-01-18T13:14:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T13:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2013-01-18T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T13:14:30","slug":"3-8-rc4-vmware-problem-but-old-nvidia-still-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"3.8-rc4 – VMware problem, but ‘old’ NVIDIA still OK.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Just installed kernel 3.8-rc4<\/strong> on my test system<\/p>\n

This time, VMware (9.01) compile fails, even with the ‘softlink’ workaround for version.h..<\/p>\n

make: Entering directory `\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only’<\/strong>
\n\/usr\/bin\/make -C \/lib\/modules\/3.8.0-rc4\/build\/include\/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD\/. <\/strong>
\n\u00a0 MODULEBUILDDIR= modules<\/strong>
\nmake[1]: Entering directory `\/usr\/src\/linux-3.8-rc4′<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 CC [M]\u00a0 \/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.o<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 CC [M]\u00a0 \/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/vmciKernelIf.o<\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.c:127:4: error: implicit declaration of function \u2018__devexit_p\u2019 [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]<\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.c:127:4: error: initializer element is not constant<\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.c:127:4: error: (near initialization for \u2018vmci_driver.remove\u2019)<\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.c:1754:1: error: expected \u2018=\u2019, \u2018,\u2019, \u2018;\u2019, \u2018asm\u2019 or \u2018__attribute__\u2019 before \u2018vmci_probe_device\u2019<\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.c:1982:1: error: expected \u2018=\u2019, \u2018,\u2019, \u2018;\u2019, \u2018asm\u2019 or \u2018__attribute__\u2019 before \u2018vmci_remove_device\u2019<\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.c:119:12: warning: \u2018vmci_probe_device\u2019 used but never defined [enabled by default]<\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.c:121:13: warning: \u2018vmci_remove_device\u2019 used but never defined [enabled by default]<\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.c:2063:1: warning: \u2018vmci_interrupt\u2019 defined but not used [-Wunused-function]<\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.c:2137:1: warning: \u2018vmci_interrupt_bm\u2019 defined but not used [-Wunused-function]<\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.c:1717:1: warning: \u2018vmci_enable_msix\u2019 defined but not used [-Wunused-function]<\/strong>
\ncc1: some warnings being treated as errors<\/strong>
\nmake[2]: *** [\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.o] Error 1<\/strong>
\nmake[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs….<\/strong>
\nmake[1]: *** [_module_\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only] Error 2<\/strong>
\nmake[1]: Leaving directory `\/usr\/src\/linux-3.8-rc4′<\/strong>
\nmake: *** [vmci.ko] Error 2<\/strong>
\nmake: Leaving directory `\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only’<\/strong>
\nUnable to install all modules.\u00a0 See log for details.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The newest NVIDIA driver – 313.18<\/em> – fails to start compilation, with *** Unable to determine the target kernel version. ***<\/strong>, but the ‘old’ driver – 310.14<\/strong><\/em> – still compiles successfully!<\/p>\n

VMware are actively working to get vmci<\/strong>, (vmw_vmci<\/em><\/strong> and\u00a0vmw_vsock<\/strong><\/em>) into the mainstream Linux kernel, but this is still at the ‘code-review’ stage..
\nhttp:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/531944\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 January 18th 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just installed kernel 3.8-rc4 on my test system This time, VMware (9.01) compile fails, even with the ‘softlink’ workaround for version.h.. make: Entering directory `\/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only’ \/usr\/bin\/make -C \/lib\/modules\/3.8.0-rc4\/build\/include\/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD\/. \u00a0 MODULEBUILDDIR= modules make[1]: Entering directory `\/usr\/src\/linux-3.8-rc4′ \u00a0 CC [M]\u00a0 \/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.o \u00a0 CC [M]\u00a0 \/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/vmciKernelIf.o \/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.c:127:4: error: implicit declaration of function \u2018__devexit_p\u2019 [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] \/tmp\/modconfig-rBMV5O\/vmci-only\/linux\/driver.c:127:4: error: initializer element …<\/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":[229,282,306,405],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-vmware","tag-kernel-3-8-rc4","tag-nvidia-old-driver-success","tag-problems","tag-vmware-compile-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}