Hi Brian,
yes, the bug is just fixed in HEAD, but no, nobody should/will backport the patch, until the kernel becomes stable (rc1 is not enough), and a new stable virtualbox is released. As you can see the patch in the upstream tracker [1] the kernel is going in a deadlock with the patch, so everything should be fixed between kernel and/or virtualbox. Fixing this stuff in debian is just useless. (@Ritesh if you want to upload some bad patch on experimental I can point you to the patches [2] [3], but I think we should follow only stable kernel releases, not nightly commits, and I guess the kernel will change a lot prior to 4.0 stable, also virtualbox) [1] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13835 [2] https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/54461 [3] https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/54391 cheers, up to you! and please if you rebuild virtualbox with the patch and you encounter a deadlock feel free to report it on the kernel mail list on the virtualbox bug tracker :) Gianfranco Il Giovedì 26 Febbraio 2015 16:33, Brian Minton <br...@minton.name> ha scritto: Package: virtualbox-dkms Version: 4.3.22-dfsg-1 Followup-For: Bug #779025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Dear Maintainer, The bug is still present in the latest version from experimental. - -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-rc1+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms depends on: ii dkms 2.2.0.3-2 ii dpkg 1.17.24 ii virtualbox 4.3.22-dfsg-1 virtualbox-dkms recommends no packages. virtualbox-dkms suggests no packages. - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iF4EAREIAAYFAlTvPNsACgkQa46zoGXPuqlfmgD6Aw0VeT0sTH/pkPw1yynWWhAc N4zZ19Ym5hdYOU3uPB8A/jtl9OVJzAVaEB2UU+UG6y3GVgUP8jkY8gmoncefizUG =s7Vu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
