Hi Henrik, I appreciate your work, unfortunately (Debian and Ubuntu virtualbox maintainer hat on), the patch is not good.
e.g. the first patch drops support for older kernels, you can see the right patch here http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/commit/src/VBox/HostDrivers/VBoxNetAdp/linux/VBoxNetAdp-linux.c?id=747414b7236ec035b4ffcce62f953a7908637723 and here http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/commit/src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/linux/alloc-r0drv-linux.c?id=747414b7236ec035b4ffcce62f953a7908637723 the problem actually is that we can't provide targeted fixes anymore for virtualbox, since this kind of kernel build failures is much frequent, and the vbox code changes a lot between releases. I'm going to ask soon an exception for virtualbox, to be able to update it to new stable releases in stable ubuntu ones, to fix CVEs and this kind of bugs easily. look e.g. to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794466 where I asked the same for Debian. ** Changed in: virtualbox (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Confirmed ** Changed in: virtualbox (Ubuntu) Assignee: Henrik Tikanvaara (henrik-tikanvaara-7) => (unassigned) ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #794466 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794466 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1457776 Title: virtualbox-dkms 4.3.10-dfsg-1ubuntu5: virtualbox kernel module failed to build To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1457776/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
