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Bug 584500 - =app-emulation/vmware-modules-308.1.0: fails to build against kernel 4.7.x
Summary: =app-emulation/vmware-modules-308.1.0: fails to build against kernel 4.7.x
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled]
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Keywords: InOverlay, PATCH
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-05-30 04:45 UTC by Mihai Donțu
Modified: 2017-11-30 10:57 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Attachments
patch for removed net_device->trans_start (308-4.07.00-netif.c.patch,671 bytes, patch)
2016-05-30 04:46 UTC, Mihai Donțu 		Details | Diff
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Description Mihai Donțu 2016-05-30 04:45:38 UTC 
I just switched to 4.7-rc1 (chasing a i965 PSR issue) and the VMware Workstation modules no longer build, because net_device->trans_start has been removed (finally) after being marked as deprecated since 3.9 at least.

A very simple patch is attached.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
emerge =app-emulation/vmware-modules-308.1.0

Actual Results:  
the build fails

Expected Results:  
the build should succeed
Comment 1 Mihai Donțu 2016-05-30 04:46:48 UTC 
Created attachment 435724 [details, diff]
patch for removed net_device->trans_start
Comment 2 Fabio Rossi 2016-06-17 07:45:34 UTC 
The overlay has already a patch for 4.7, please try it
Comment 3 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev 2016-07-27 07:25:19 UTC 
still true here too:

 * Applying 304-hardened.patch ...

 * Failed Patch: 304-hardened.patch !
 *  ( /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/304-hardened.patch )
 * 
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
Comment 4 Fabio Rossi 2016-07-27 14:44:09 UTC 
(In reply to Toralf Förster from comment #3)
> still true here too:
> 
>  * Applying 304-hardened.patch ...
> 
>  * Failed Patch: 304-hardened.patch !
>  *  ( /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/304-hardened.patch )
>  * 
>  * Include in your bugreport the contents of:

wrong bug report, this is for latest vmware-modules version, 308.x
Comment 5 Fabio Rossi 2016-08-05 07:30:44 UTC 
(In reply to Toralf Förster from comment #3)
> still true here too:
> 
>  * Applying 304-hardened.patch ...
> 
>  * Failed Patch: 304-hardened.patch !
>  *  ( /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/304-hardened.patch )
>  * 
>  * Include in your bugreport the contents of:

Please try again from the overlay
Comment 6 Manfred Knick 2017-07-07 21:19:41 UTC 
REFERENCE:

Bug 616958 :  12.5.7 version bump

Currently, we are @ 4.9.36 for latest longterm.

Current [Overlay] includes:

           vmware-modules-304.4-r1.ebuild
and        vmware-modules-308.5.7.ebuild ,
but no
           vmware-modules-308.1.y.ebuild
any more.

To me, this bug seems to be FIXED / OBSOLETE.
Comment 7 Manfred Knick 2017-11-30 10:57:55 UTC 
VMware Products have been removed from Main Portage Tree during Nov-2017.

Further development has been relegated to [vmware] Overlay.

Situation as of today, 30-Nov-2017:
Workstation : stable in [vmware] = 12.5.8  / released = 14.0.0  : Bug 634770
Player      : stable in [vmware] = 12.5.8  / released = 14.0.0  : Bug 639162
Modules     : stable in [vmware] = 308.5.8 / released = 329.0.0 : Bug 634862
Tools       : stable in [vmware] = 10.1.6  / released = 10.1.15 : Bug 634854