{"id":745,"date":"2013-05-30T18:02:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=745"},"modified":"2013-05-30T18:02:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:02:34","slug":"3-10-rc3-nvidia-patches-ok-still-missing-vmware-vmblock-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"3.10-rc3 &#8211; NVIDIA Patches OK, Still Missing VMware vmblock Patch.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just installed <strong>3.10-rc3<\/strong> on the test system, and the latest NVIDIA drivers (310.51, and 319.23 beta) both compile OK with the patch mentioned in the posting on 3.10-rc2\u00a0 <a title=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=738\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=738\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=738<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8211; rather complex &#8211; 3.10 patch for vmnet works, but there is still no patch for vmblock, which fails to compile:<\/p>\n<p>\/tmp\/modconfig-J79ptB\/vmblock-only\/linux\/inode.c:49:4: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]<br \/>\n\/tmp\/modconfig-J79ptB\/vmblock-only\/linux\/inode.c:49:4: warning: (near initialization for \u2018RootInodeOps.lookup\u2019) [enabled by default]<br \/>\n\/tmp\/modconfig-J79ptB\/vmblock-only\/linux\/control.c: In function \u2018SetupProcDevice\u2019:<br \/>\n\/tmp\/modconfig-J79ptB\/vmblock-only\/linux\/control.c:211:4: error: implicit declaration of function \u2018create_proc_entry\u2019 [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]<br \/>\n\/tmp\/modconfig-J79ptB\/vmblock-only\/linux\/control.c:211:21: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]<br \/>\n\/tmp\/modconfig-J79ptB\/vmblock-only\/linux\/control.c:221:20: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type<br \/>\n\/tmp\/modconfig-J79ptB\/vmblock-only\/linux\/control.c: In function \u2018ExecuteBlockOp\u2019:<br \/>\n\/tmp\/modconfig-J79ptB\/vmblock-only\/linux\/control.c:285:9: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]<br \/>\ncc1: some warnings being treated as errors<br \/>\nmake[2]: *** [\/tmp\/modconfig-J79ptB\/vmblock-only\/linux\/control.o] Error 1<br \/>\nmake[1]: *** [_module_\/tmp\/modconfig-J79ptB\/vmblock-only] Error 2<br \/>\nmake[1]: Leaving directory `\/usr\/src\/linux-3.10-rc3&#8242;<br \/>\nmake: *** [vmblock.ko] Error 2<br \/>\nmake: Leaving directory `\/tmp\/modconfig-J79ptB\/vmblock-only&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The VMware vmnet patch for kernel 3.10-rc can be found in this thread:\u00a0 <a title=\"http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/thread\/446113\" href=\"http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/thread\/446113\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/thread\/446113<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon&#8230;\u00a0 May 30, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just installed 3.10-rc3 on the test system, and the latest NVIDIA drivers (310.51, and 319.23 beta) both compile OK with the patch mentioned in the posting on 3.10-rc2\u00a0 https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=738 The &#8211; rather complex &#8211; 3.10 patch for vmnet works, but there is still no patch for vmblock, which fails to compile: \/tmp\/modconfig-J79ptB\/vmblock-only\/linux\/inode.c:49:4: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=745\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":[5,6,11,14,15,18,25],"tags":[522,525,524,277,1175,526,517,402],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-vmware","tag-310-51","tag-319-23","tag-kernel-3-10-rc3","tag-nvidia-2","tag-success","tag-vmblock-compile-fail","tag-vmnet-patch","tag-vmware-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","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=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}