On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 08:03 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Sérgio Basto <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a bug report that can't build virtualbox kmods for kernels
> > on
> > rawhide
> > 
> > Larry Finger for opensuse wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, it does not work for kernel 4.11. The "#ifndef" will
> > eventually be
> > replaced
> > by "#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 13, 0)", but that
> > will
> > not work
> > until kernel 4.13-rc1 is released. You asked about 4.13-rc0, but
> > that
> > entity
> > does not exist here.
> > If your kernel Makefile does indeed have 4.13, then use the kernel
> > version test.
> > 
> > So the main question is kernel Makefile does indeed have 4.13 ?
> 
> No, and it won't until upstream releases 4.13-rc1.  Merge window
> kernels are called 4.12+ until that point.  The RPM versioning in
> Fedora is a construct to reflect that we are working on what will be
> the 4.13 code base.

As I completely understand that we test it , I ask if is it possible
change kernel Makefile to reflect the new release , seems to me more
correct ... . 

Anyway, hopefully, these merge windows are short and we already have 
 4.13-rc1 released since yesterday. 

Thanks, 

-- 
Sérgio M. B.
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