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Bug 591284 - =app-emulation/vmware-modules-308.1.1 with kernel 4.8: undefined symbol NR_ANON_PAGES
Summary: =app-emulation/vmware-modules-308.1.1 with kernel 4.8: undefined symbol NR_AN...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Overlays (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled]
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Keywords: InOverlay
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-08-14 23:00 UTC by Mihai Donțu
Modified: 2017-11-30 10:59 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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


Attachments
NR_ANON_PAGES patch (nr_anon_mapped.patch,486 bytes, patch)
2016-08-14 23:01 UTC, Mihai Donțu
Details | Diff
Patch for Main Portage Tree (vmware-modules-308.1.0.patch,3.71 KB, patch)
2016-11-08 08:20 UTC, Olipro
Details | Diff

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Description Mihai Donțu 2016-08-14 23:00:35 UTC
I'm testing 4.8-rc1 and noticed that NR_ANON_PAGES got renamed to NR_ANON_MAPPED

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. get kernel 4.8-rc1
2. try to emerge vmware-modules

Actual Results:  
The build fails because of unknown NR_ANON_PAGES

Expected Results:  
Expected to build OK
Comment 1 Mihai Donțu 2016-08-14 23:01:43 UTC
Created attachment 443330 [details, diff]
NR_ANON_PAGES patch

This patch can be placed in '/etc/portage/patches/app-emulation/vmware-modules-308.1.1'
Comment 2 Fabio Rossi 2016-08-17 12:39:56 UTC
thanks, it's now in the overlay
Comment 3 Olipro 2016-11-08 08:20:48 UTC
Created attachment 452682 [details, diff]
Patch for Main Portage Tree

The latest version completely failed with 4.8 - the attached patch makes it successfully compile (and run) with the aforementioned version but almost certainly isn't appropriate for prior kernel versions.
Comment 4 Manfred Knick 2017-07-07 21:18:17 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 5 Manfred Knick 2017-11-30 10:59:29 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